List of BR 'Clan' Class locomotives

Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the BR standard class 6, or 'Clan' Class that ran on the Scottish Region of British Railways' railway network. They represented an attempt to regionalise some of the names of the standard pacifics, resulting in E.S. Cox's decision to name the class after the former Highland Railway's outgoing Clan Class, designed by Christopher Cumming.

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Locomotives as constructed

BR No. Name[1] Builder When built Withdrawn Notes
72000 Clan Buchanan Crewe 01951-12 December 1951 01962-12 December 1962
72001 Clan Cameron Crewe 01951-12 December 1951 01962-12 December 1962
72002 Clan Campbell Crewe 01952-06 June 1952 01962-12 December 1962
72003 Clan Fraser Crewe 01952-06 June 1952 01962-12 December 1962
72004 Clan MacDonald Crewe 01952-07 July 1952 01962-12 December 1962
72005 Clan MacGregor Crewe 01952-07 July 1952 01965-05 May 1965 Never fitted with Automatic Warning System (AWS)
72006 Clan MacKenzie Crewe 01952-07 July 1952 01966-05 May 1966
72007 Clan MacKintosh Crewe 01952-08 August 1952 01965-12 December 1965
72008 Clan MacLeod Crewe 01952-09 September 1952 01966-04 April 1966
72009 Clan Stewart Crewe 01952-09 September 1952 01965-08 August 1965

Unbuilt locomotives

A further 15 'Clans' was projected, but due to an acute shortage of steel, the order was frequently postponed until the advent of the British Railways Modernisation Plan, which led to the order being cancelled. Five of the new locomotives were expected to operate on the Southern Region, and as such, a change in naming style was undertaken with the next five in series. The final ten reverted back to Scottish Region parlance. The projected names were selected as thus:

Southern Region.

72010 Hengist, 72011 Horsa, 72012 Canute, 72013 Wildfire, 72014 Firebrand.

Scottish Region.

72015 Clan Colquhoun, 72016 Clan Graham, 72017 Clan MacDougall, 72018 Clan MacLean, 72019 Clan Douglas, 72020 Clan Gordon, 72021 Clan Hamilton, 72022 Clan Kennedy, 72023 Clan Lindsay, 72024 Clan Scott.

New-build attempt

A start has been made on constructing a new locomotive of the missing batch of 15, number 72010 Hengist. The frames of which are currently at Riley and Son of Bury. Completion will result in the locomomotive potentially being the 1000th locomotive to be built to a British Railways standard design. [2] Riley's also have the smoke box. Other parts are in store at the North Dorset Railway and at a location in Burton on Trent. It is hoped to centralise all the parts in one place in the next few months, and to make a start in assembling the locomotive.

The project is now under new management and a build plan has been put together to make a start on assembling the frames. Further to this, a purchase order has been placed for the patterns of the major inter-frame stretcher/spring hanger castings. The first of these patterns will be ready for collection in mid November 2011

Footnotes

  1. ^ Burridge, Frank: Nameplates of the Big Four (Oxford Publishing Company: Oxford, 1975) ISBN 0-90288-843-9
  2. ^ Thomas, Cliff: 'The Lazarus locomotives: BR Standard Class 6' (The Railway Magazine: 1, 2007)

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