NBR C Class

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NBR C Class
LNER Class J36
NBR C Class  LNER Class J36
Preserved 673 Maude in NBR livery.
She represented Scotland at the Rainhill Trials 150th anniversay calvacade in May 1980, hauling a Caledonian Railway coach.
Power type Steam
Designer Matthew Holmes
Build date 1888
Configuration 0-6-0
Gauge 4' 8½"
Driver size 5' 0"
Locomotive weight locomotive: 41 tons 19 cwt
tender: 33 tons 9 cwt
Fuel type coal
Boiler pressure 165 psi
Cylinders two inside
Cylinder size 18¼" x 26"
Tractive effort 19,690 lb
Class 2F
65243 Maude stored inside museum at Bo'ness, 2 July 2005.
65243 Maude stored inside museum at Bo'ness, 2 July 2005.

The NBR C Class (LNER Class J36) is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by Matthew Holmes for freight work on the North British Railway. They were introduced in 1888 and had inside cylinders and Stephenson valve gear.

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[edit] Post-NBR

They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923 and were classified J36. Many of them passed into British Railways (BR) ownership in 1948 and they were numbered 65210-65346.

[edit] Preservation

One, 673 Maude (LNER number 9673; LNER 1946 number 5243; BR number 65243) has been preserved by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.

[edit] Sources

Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1962 edition

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