The Midland Railway 1252 class was a class of thirty
0-4-4T
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-4 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles. This type was only used ...
locomotives built by
Neilson and Company in 1875–1876 to the design of
Samuel Waite Johnson. They were a development of the
6 Class. Originally numbers 1262–1281 and 1252–1261. Under the
Midland Railway's 1907 renumbering scheme they became 1236–1265.
Construction history
The Midland used nominal diameter
driving wheels for this class, whereas in all later engines (starting with the
1532 Class) they used nominal diameter wheels. They were given the
power classification 1P.
Service history
All but one locomotive passed to the
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...
(LMS) at the
1923 grouping
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grouping" them into four la ...
; and nine, Nos 1239/46/47/49/51/52/55/60/61 were still in
LMS stock at the end of 1947 and passed to
British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
ways (BR). BR allocated them numbers 58030–58038, though only three 58033/36/38 received them before withdrawal. All members of the class were withdrawn by 1954, and all were scrapped.
References
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Further reading
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Bob Essery and
David Jenkinson ''An Illustrated Review of Midland Locomotives vol 3''
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Bob Essery and
David Jenkinson ''An Illustrated History of LMS Locomotives vol 4''
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1252
Year 1252 ( MCCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona is assassinated by Carino of Balsamo.
* May 15 – P ...
0-4-4T locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1875
Neilson locomotives
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Scrapped locomotives