Highland Railway Cumming 4-4-0 Class
Performance figures | |
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Tractive effort | 20,627 lbf (91.8 kN) |
Career | |
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Operators | HR, LMS |
Power class | LMS: 3P |
Numbers | HR: 73–74, LMS: 14522–14523 |
Withdrawn | 1935–1936 |
Disposition | Both scrapped |
The Highland Railway Cumming 4-4-0 class was a pair of 4-4-0 steam locomotives designed by Christopher Cumming, the Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway
Dimensions
They had 20-by-26-inch (510 mm × 660 mm) outside cylinders with Walschaerts valve gear, 6 ft 3 in (1.905 m) driving wheels and a boiler pressed to 175 lbf/in2 (1.21 MPa). Weight was a half-hundredweight short of 56 long tons (125,400 lb or 56.9 t).
Numbering
HR No. | Name | LMS No. | Withdrawn | Notes |
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73 | Snaigow | 14522 | April 1936 | |
74 | Durn | 14523 | April 1935 |
Transfer to LMS
Both survived into London, Midland and Scottish Railway ownership in 1923, but neither lasted until nationalisation, as both were withdrawn and scrapped as non-standard engines in the mid-1930s. The LMS had classed them as 3P.
References
- Baxter, Bertram (1984). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 4: Scottish and remaining English Companies in the LMS Group. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company.
- Casserley, H. C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1974) [1966]. Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. p. 146. ISBN 0-7110-0554-0.
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