LT&SR 79 Class

LTSR 79 class
Preserved LTSR 4-4-2T No. 80 Thundersley
Specifications
Power type	Steam
Designer	Thomas Whitelegg
Builder	Robert Stephenson & Co. (4), Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. (5), Derby Works (30)
Serial number	RS 3366–3369, NW 1448–1452
Build date	1909–1930
Total produced	39
Configuration	4-4-2T
UIC classification	2'B1
Leading wheel diameter	3 ft 6 in (1.067 m)
Driver diameter	6 ft 6 in (1.981 m)
Trailing wheel diameter	3 ft 6 in (1.067 m)
Wheelbase	30 ft 9 1⁄2 in (9.39 m)
Length	39 ft 0 in (11.89 m)
Locomotive weight	71.50 long tons (72.65 t)
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	2.75 long tons (2.79 t)
Water capacity	1,800 imp gal (8,200 l; 2,200 US gal)
Boiler pressure	170 psi (1.17 MPa)
Cylinders	Two, outside
Cylinder size	19 in × 26 in (483 mm × 660 mm)
Valve gear	Stephenson
Tractive effort	17,390 lbf (77.4 kN)
Career
Railroad(s)	LTSR · MR · LMS · BR
Power class	3P
Number in class	1 January 1923: 4 1 January 1948: 39
Withdrawn	1951–1960
Disposition	One preserved, remainder scrapped

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) 79 Class is a class of 4-4-2T suburban tank engines. They were designed by Thomas Whitelegg, as a development of the earlier 37 Class.

The four locomotives ordered by the LTSR were numbered 79–82 and were named after places in Essex, near the LTSR route. After absorption by the Midland Railway in 1912, they were renumbered 2176–2179 and their names were removed. The Midland gave them the power classification 3P, and later continued construction; an order for 10 locomotives was delivered in 1923, just after grouping.

List of LTSR locomotives

Additional orders

In addition to those constructed by the LTSR and MR, 35 were delivered to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) – ten in 1923, five in 1925, ten in 1927, and a final 10 in 1930. The ten delivered in 1923 were to an outstanding order placed by the MR, the remainder were ordered by the LMS.^[1] The five delivered in 1925 were built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, with the other thirty built by the LMS's Derby Works. In 1947 the LMS assigned them the numbers 1928–1975, to clear their previous numbers for new LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T locomotives, but none of these was applied before nationalisation in 1948, leaving British Railways to apply the numbers 41928–41975.

They were later displaced from the LTS Line and found work on ex-Midland lines in the East Midlands.

One, 80 Thundersley has been preserved and is on static display at the Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk.

References

• Casserley, H.C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1974) [1966]. Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. pp. 40–41. ISBN 0-7110-0554-0. 
• Essery, Bob (2001). The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and its Locomotives, OPC. ISBN 0-86093-561-2
• Essery, Bob and Jenkinson, David. An Illustrated History of LMS locomotives. Volume 4. Absorbed Pre-Group Classes Midland Division ISBN 0-947971-16-5
• Rowledge, J.W.P. (1975). Engines of the LMS. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company. pp. 4, 42, 50. ISBN 0-902888-59-5. 

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