Locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

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Locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The L&YR Locomotive Works were originally at Miles Platting, Manchester, from 1889 being at Horwich.

Contents 1 Constituent companies 2 Locomotives under L&YR 2.1 Early years (1847-1875) 2.2 Barton Wright (1875-1886) 2.3 Aspinall (1886-1899) 2.4 Hoy 1899-1904 2.5 Hughes (1904-1922) 3 Preservation 4 External links

[edit] Constituent companies

L&YR formed in 1847 from Manchester and Leeds Railway and others.

[edit] Locomotives under L&YR

[edit] Early years (1847-1875)

[edit] Barton Wright (1875-1886)

See William Barton Wright

• L&YR Class 25

[edit] Aspinall (1886-1899)

John Aspinall

• L&YR Class 5
• L&YR Class 21
• L&YR Class 23
• L&YR Class 27

[edit] Hoy 1899-1904

Henry Hoy

[edit] Hughes (1904-1922)

See George Hughes

• L&YR Class 28
• Electric locomotive

[edit] Preservation

8 locomotives survive, these being:

• L&YR Class 21 0-4-0ST "Pugs" nos 19 and 68
• L&YR Class 5 2-4-2T in NRM
• L&YR Class 27 0-6-0 no 1300
• L&YR Class 25 no 957
• L&YR Class 23 0-6-0ST no 752

Plus a Motor Rail petrol mechanical shunter no 1 and "Wren" a narrow gauge Horwich Works shunter.

[edit] External links

• "A Brief History of L&YR Locomotives" from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society