LB&SCR Richmond class

London Brighton and South Coast Railway Richmond Class

Diagram of a Richmond class 0-4-2
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Designer William Stroudley
Builder Brighton Works
Build date 1878–1880
Total produced 6
Specifications
Configuration 0-4-2
UIC classification B1'n
Driver diameter 6 ft 6 in (1.981 m)
Trailing wheel
diameter
4 ft 6 in (1.372 m)
Locomotive weight 37 long tons 0 cwt (82,900 lb or 37.6 t)
Boiler pressure 150 psi (1,034.2 kPa)
Cylinders Two
Cylinder size 17.25 in × 26 in (438 mm × 660 mm)
Performance figures
Tractive effort 12,646 lbf (56.3 kN)
Career
Operator(s) London Brighton and South Coast Railway
Class B
Number(s) 208–213
Locale Great Britain
Withdrawn 1901–1904
Disposition All scrapped

The LB&SCR Richmond class, 0-4-2 express passenger locomotives, were designed by William Stroudley of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1877. They were a larger version of his "Lyons" class (D2) which were in turn developed from his successful "D-tank" class of 1873.

The six locomotives in this class were built at Brighton railway works and appeared in traffic between October 1878 and March 1880, intended to replace earlier classes designed by John Chester Craven on the heaviest express trains between London and Brighton. They performed well on these duties for a decade but were eventually replaced by Stroudley's larger "Gladstone" class (B1). They were then transferred to Eastbourne and St Leonards to work on expresses from those towns.

During the winter of 1900/01 members of the class were transferred to the duplicate list. Withdrawal commenced in April 1901 and was completed by November 1904. No examples were preserved.

They were originally classified as "B class" together with the members of the larger "Gladstone class". As all six locomotives had been withdrawn before D.E. Marsh introduced his letter/number classification scheme, they were never officially allocated a new class designation. They were, however, described as 'D3 class' by Frank Burtt in The Locomotives of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (1903), p.215.

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