Power type Steam Total produced 111 | Designer F.W. Webb Build date 1893–1900 | |
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The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class A was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. From 1893 to 1900, Crewe Works built 111 of these engines, which had a three-cylinder compound arrangement, and were designed by Francis Webb. According to the LNWR Society, 110 were built between 1894 and 1900.
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Rebuilding
Like the other Webb compounds, they proved problematic, so in 1904 George Whale began rebuilding these to simple expansion engines. Fifteen were converted to Class C between 1904–1906, 62 to Class D between 1906–1909, with the remaining 34 rebuilt by Charles Bowen Cooke to Class C1 between 1909-1912.
Classification
The LNWR letter classification system for 8 coupled engines (A, B, C, etc.) was introduced in 1911.
References
LNWR Class A Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA