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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. It was one of the most ...
92203 Black Prince at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. No. 92203 was built by Swindon and delivered on 6 April 1959. [6] When withdrawn in November 1967 [6] after a working life of less than nine years, it was working the heavy iron ore trains out of Bidston Dock, Birkenhead to Shotwick Shotton steelworks, and worked the last steam-hauled ore train in November 1967.
BR Standard Class 9F number 92220 Evening Star is a preserved British steam locomotive completed in 1960. It was the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways . It was the only British main line steam locomotive earmarked for preservation from the date of construction. [ 1 ]
The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the " Big Four ". In addition, BR built 2,537 steam locomotives in the period 1948–1960, 1,538 to pre-nationalisation designs and 999 to its own standard designs.
The Great Central Railway (GCR) Class 9F was a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1891 and 1901. From 1923 the locomotives were redesignated Class N5 . Design and construction
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.
As a result of this, there was a reduced ability to generate steam, and so their power classification was unofficially reduced from 9F to 8F. [ 2 ] All were fitted with the British Railways standard BR1B-type tenders which had a water capacity of 4,275 imperial gallons (19,430 L) and carried 7 long tons (7.1 t) of coal.
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