L&YR Class 30

The L&YR Class 30 was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The class was designed by John Aspinall and introduced in 1900.

For other uses, see L&YR Class 30 (disambiguation).

L&YR Class 30
LYR 0-8-0 Class 30 with standard Belpaire boiler
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
DesignerAspinall
Build date1900-1908
Total produced60
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte0-8-0
Gauge4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia.4 ft 6 in (1.372 m)
Loco weight53.8 long tons (54.7 t)
Fuel typeCoal
Boiler pressure175 psi (1.21 MPa)
CylindersTwo, inside
Cylinder size20 in × 26 in (508 mm × 660 mm) [1]
Valve gearJoy
Performance figures
Tractive effort28,644 lbf (127.4 kN)
Career
OperatorsL&YR, LMS, BR
Power classLMS 5F
Withdrawn1929-1950
Dispositionall scrapped

Hoy locomotives
No. 114 built at Horwich with a cylindrical firebox, longer than the original type
footplate view of cylindrical firebox

Twenty of the class, built in 1903, were fitted with Henry Hoy's corrugated cylindrical steel firebox. This was not a great success (the internal flue deformed under steam pressure and water circulation was poor)[2] and they were later rebuilt with conventional boilers between 1911 and 1914. Crews referred to them as "Sea Pigs" which infers they were not well liked. [3]

Numbering

A total of 60 locomotives was built and these passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. The LMS numbered them 12700-12759 and gave them the power classification 5F. In 1948, British Railways (BR) inherited only 1 surviving locomotive. This was LMS 12727 (L&YR 1433 ) and BR numbered it 52727.[4]

Withdrawal

The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1926 and the last in 1950. None were preserved.

References
  1. Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives; part 3 (1948 ed.). p. 44.
  2. Poultney, E.C. (June 1954). Cooke, B.W.C. (ed.). "An Unusual Boiler Design". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 100 no. 638. Westminster: Tothill Press. p. 397.
  3. Barry C. Lane, Lancashire & Yorkshire Locomotives, p113, Pendragon Publishing, 2010
  4. Casserley, H.C.; Johnston, S.W. (1966). Locomotives at the Grouping, no.3, LMS. Ian Allan. p. 128.
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