The Midland Railway 1532 class was a class of 65

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

Derby Works The Derby Works comprised a number of British manufacturing facilities designing and building locomotives and rolling stock in Derby, England. The first of these was a group of three maintenance sheds opened around 1840 behind Derby station. Th ...

between 1881 and 1886 to the design of Samuel W. Johnson. They were a development of the 1252 class. Originally numbered 1532–1551, 1632–1656, and 1718–1737; under the 1907 renumbering scheme they became 1266–1330, and were given the

power classification A number of different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and its constituent companies; this page explains the principal systems that were used. The followi ...

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Construction history

The sixty-five engines of this class were all built by

using the type C boiler that had also been used on the previous class – the 1252 – and the class before that – the 6 class. The driving wheel diameter was reduced to from the 1252's – the 6 class had used drivers. The wheelbase was the same as the previous two classes, as was the cylinder bore and stroke at . All three classes had their cylinder bore increased to .

Service history

All were in service at the 1907 renumbering, and all bar three 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 ...

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 ...

, the exceptions were two that had been withdrawn and a third No. 1305, that had been transferred to the

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (now in south-east Dorset but then in Hampshire), with a branch from Evercreec ...

in January 1921; it came into LMS stock when the S&DJR stock was absorbed in January 1930. Withdrawals started in 1919, and fourteen locomotives were still in LMS stock at the end of 1947, to be inherited by

British Railways 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 ...

. No. 1307 was withdrawn in January 1948; in March the remaining thirteen (1272/73/75/78/90/95/98, 1303/15/22/24/30) were allocated the BR numbers 58039–58051, although five did not receive their BR numbers before their withdrawal. The last, 58051 was withdrawn in October 1956. None were preserved.

Models

Bachmann Branchline announced on 8 January 2017 that it would be producing models of the class in Midland Railway maroon, LMS black and BR black.

References

Bibliography

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