Any ideas on this loco class

I have added a photo of a S.R 0-6-0 number 1380, can anyone help me with the designer and class of loco please

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Many thanks



Neil

 

It's an ex-South Eastern Railway Stirling O class, built 1893, rebuilt 1908 into class O1 (new boiler, revised cab etc); withdrawn late 1949.

Incidentally, in your caption it's Longhedge, not Longhenge - think a green field border, not a neolithic stone monument!

Tom

 

Funny Southern Number! I assume you meant BR(S) 31380, but given the withdrawal dates, I suspect it was scrapped before ever gaining a BR number.

Tom

 

Nice EMU photobombing over the top....

 

Confirmed by reference to "Locomotives at the Grouping - Part 1 Southern Railway" by H.C. Casserley and S.W. Johnson.

Neil - as I keep reiterating - you need to get the set of Locomotives at the Grouping and BR Steam Locomotives from Nationalisation to Modernisation as these books will answer most of your "class identification" queries.

 

Just look at the quality of the coal in the tender! It makes you realise the conditions that our forebears had to endure day in and day out.

Peter James

 

Looks like the "Blumentopferdede" they had to put-up with in East Germany!

 

I would think the sparse cab was a real joy to be in during cold wet weather especially when running in reverse. Did any of that class make it into preservation?

 

One survived (no. 65, from 1896, rebuilt 1906), and it should be back in traffic later this spring . Follow them "Bluebell motive power" thread for overhaul updates.

As for the cab - not half as bad in the winter as a Dukedog ...

Tom

 

Thanks for the info. I went to youtube my standby source for video and it was nice to see the old girl in splendid paint and chugging along with three equally old coaches in tow. It was certainly a sharp contrast to the vintage photo of a sister engine in this thread. Glad this one survived! What were the usual work assignments for this class engine circa 1906? Something about that engine catches my eye. Ruggedly built but yet dainty??

 

They were built as goods locos, though like many such locos in southern England, they frequently worked passenger trains as well and had screw couplings and vac brakes fitted accordingly from early in their lives (many goods engines elsewhere in the country had neither for many years).

Tom