The GER Class 127 was a class of a solitary experimental

0-6-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels. This was the most common wheel arrangemen ...

compound

steam locomotive A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...

built by the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

at its

Stratford Works Stratford Works was the locomotive-building works of the Great Eastern Railway situated at Stratford, London, England. The original site of the works was located in the 'V' between the Great Eastern Main Line and the Stratford to Lea Bridge rou ...

in 1888. It was rebuilt as a simple locomotive in 1895, and withdrawn in 1913.

History

The locomotive, numbered 127, emerged from Stratford Works in 1888, having been built to a 'Departmental and Personal' account (DP203) rather than the normal 'letter' account, indicating its experimental status. It was designed using the two-cylinder Worsdell/ Von Borries compound system, and therefore its initial design may have been by

Thomas William Worsdell Thomas William Worsdell (14 January 1838 – 28 June 1916) was an English locomotive engineer. He was born in Liverpool into a Quaker family. Family T. W. Worsdell – normally known as William – was the eldest son of Nathaniel Worsdell (180 ...

, before he left the Great Eastern Railway for the Locomotive Superintendency of the North Eastern Railway in 1885.No. 127 Class, Great Eastern Railway Society The locomotive had an diameter high-pressure cylinder, and a diameter low-pressure cylinder; both had a stroke. This arrangement was the same as that used on the Class G16 passenger 4-4-0 locomotives. It was reboilered and renumbered 935 in 1890, and rebuilt as a simple-expansion locomotive in 1895, whereupon it was considered part of the Class N31, and was withdrawn in 1913.

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