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THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD
& LINCOLNSHIRE RLY
(formed in 1849 on a title-change from the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne
& Manchester Rly), and its successor (another title-change)
from 1897 -
THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY which became a constituent of
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THE LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY from 1923
The MS&LR and its direct successor the GCR, together bought
282 steam locomotives from Beyer Peacock, the Railway Company's
Works ("Gorton Tank") being directly across the main
line tracks out of Manchester London Road Station (now Piccadilly)
from BP's Gorton Foundry.
The Railway Company were good customers for BP as those numbers
show, but in addition they placed much other work in the repair
of engines etc. with BP. In the year before the MSL's first order
(which was 1865 for four 2-4-0 Tender Engines), there had been
an 1864 order for six 0-6-0 Tender Engines from the South Yorkshire
Rly and in that year it became effectively a part of the MS&LR,
those engines as Class 23 to be joined in 1867 by 20 more that
the MS&LR ordered.
It is a fact that all the engines built by BP for the Railway
Company "opposite" were not designed by BP, and other
locomotive building firms were also supplying some of those same
designs for them, besides which Gorton Tank was also building
them too.
The 0-6-2 Goods Tank Engine which became the LNER Class N5 was
supplied to the MS&LR in 1893,1894 and 1896 and to the GCR
in 1898,1900 & 1901 - 79 engines. The only others supplied
before 1897's title change, were 10 2-4-2Ts in 1898 (LNER's F2
Class) and 66 0-6-0s in 1896/7 (LNER's J10 Class) (a total of
144 engines).
There was a steady flow of orders, for a variety of other designs
for just small numbers of each up to 1908, the largest quantity
being 0-6-0s (LNER J11 Class) 10 in 1903 and 15 in 1904. There
were 4-4-0s (20 - D6 Class), five designs of 4-6-0 for Passenger
and Goods (B1, B5, B4, B9 & B7 in delivery order, these last
in 1922), seven Atlantic Passenger Engines (Class C4), twelve
4-4-2 Suburban Passenger Tanks (Class C14),& those 4 mighty
Hump Shunters 0-8-4Ts built 1907/8 (a total of 138 engines).
Once the LNER was formed, with several of its own Works for locomotive
building, there were just a few further orders for BP - the one
and only Beyer Garratt Ul Class for Banking of the heavy coal
traffic, built in 1925, along that same year with 12 N2 Class
0-6-2Ts. 1928 they had 12 B12 Class 4-6-0s and in 1936/7 there
were 28 J39 Class 0-6-0s. The LNER inherited some other BP-built
engines from other absorbed railway companies.
The 4-6-0 designs were built
in the following small quantities:
B5 - 8 engines in 1905
B1 -2 engines in 1903/4 (the 2 Atlantic C4 Class of 1903 identical
except for wheel arrangement)
B9 -10 engines in 1906
B4 -10 engines also in 1906 |
