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into London, Midland and Scottish Railway ownership in 1923, but neither lasted until nationalisation, as both were withdrawn and scrapped as non-standard engines in the mid-1930s.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