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Highland Railway Cumming 4 4 0 Class

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Power type
  
Steam

Builder
  
Hawthorn Leslie

Build date
  
1916

Designer
  
Christopher Cumming

Serial number
  
3172–3173

Total produced
  
2

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

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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).

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into London, Midland and Scottish Railway ownership in 1923, but neither lasted until nationalisation, as both were withdrawn and scrapped as non-standard engines in the mid-1930s.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

Highland Railway Cumming 4-4-0 Class Wikipedia