Power type Steam Build date 1877 Configuration 0-6-0ST | Designer William Barton Wright Total produced 230 | |
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Gauge 4 ft 8 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge | ||
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 23 is a class of 0-6-0ST steam locomotive. Their main use was for shunting and for short-trip freight working.
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Construction
The Class 23 0-6-0ST locomotives were rebuilt at Horwich Works by Aspinall between 1891 and 1900, using the frames, wheels etc. from earlier Barton Wright 0-6-0 tender engines, built 1876-1887. 230 were so converted.
Ownership changes
The class was long-lived. The first loco was withdrawn in 1926 by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, but the last survived in use until 1964 with British Railways London Midland Region. 101 were in service at Nationalisation, 20 still in service in 1961.
Preservation
One locomotive, L&YR 752 (LMS 11456), is now preserved, having been sold to the NCB for continued operation and as of October 2012 is nearing the end of an overhaul to bring it back to working order by its owners, The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust, a Registered Charity reg no 1002627.