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The British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed for British Railways by Robert Riddles.The Class 9F was the last in a series of standardised locomotive classes designed for British Railways during the 1950s, and was intended for use on fast, heavy freight trains over long distances.
Rescued for preservation in December 1980, 92134 became the 116th locomotive to leave Barry after having been there for 13 years and 6 months. [2] Originally it went to Steam & Sail Engineering Ltd at Brightlingsea, in Essex, together with an LMS 4-6-0.
These were the first 2-10-0 locomotives to work in Great Britain, and the first major class of ten-coupled engines — they had been preceded by two 0-10-0 locomotives; the Great Eastern Railway's Decapod and the Midland Railway's Lickey Banker. The 2-10-0 wheel arrangement was later used by Riddles when he designed the BR Standard Class 9F ...
The first 2-10-0 was built during the Second World War, as a variant of the "Austerity" 2-8-0 for lightly built railways. [ 11 ] The only other 2-10-0 type was the 251-strong Standard class 9F introduced by British Railways in 1954. [ 12 ]
A 2-2-2 Star Class locomotive operated by the Great Western Railway, built in 1839 [18] A 4000 Class locomotive operated by GWR, built in 1907 [ 5 ] [ 19 ] British Rail Class 90 No.90013, built by Crewe Works , and named in July 2010 by National Express East Anglia at Ipswich after a local newspaper .
The BR Standard steam locomotives were an effort to standardise locomotives from the motley collection of older pre-grouping locos. Construction started in 1951. Due to the controversial British Railways' modernisation plan of 1955, where steam traction was abandoned in favour of diesel and electric traction, many of the locomotives' working lives were very short: between 7 and 17 years.
British Railways Standard Locomotives. London: Ian Allan. Richard Derry The Book of the 9F 2-10-0s ISBN 1-903266-73-4; Gavin Morrison The Power of the 9Fs OPC Railprint 2001 ISBN 0-86093-558-2; H.C.B. Rogers, Riddles and the 9Fs (Ian Allan, 1982) Nock, O.S. (1966). The British Steam Railway Locomotive. Vol. II, from 1925 to 1965.
BR Standard Class 9F (4 P) W. WD Austerity 2-10-0 (5 P) Pages in category "2-10-0 locomotives" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.