SECR F1 class
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Career |
Operators |
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Class |
SECR/SR: F1 |
Number in class |
1 January 1923: 75 |
Nicknames |
Jumbo |
Withdrawn |
1920–1949 |
Disposition |
All scrapped |
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The SECR F1 class was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. The class was rebuilt from older Stirling F class locomotives by Harry Wainwright between 1903 and 1919.[1]
Numbering
Seventy-six locomotives were rebuilt and 75 survived into Southern Railway (SR) ownership on 1 January 1923 with random numbers between 2 and 250. Nine locomotives survived into British Railways (BR) ownership in 1948.[2] Numbers of these nine were:
SECR no. |
SR no. |
BR no. |
2 |
1002 |
31002 |
28 |
1028 |
31028 |
31 |
1031 |
31031 |
42 |
1042 |
31042 |
78 |
1078 |
31078 |
105 |
1105 |
31105 |
151 |
1151 |
31151 |
215 |
1215 |
31215 |
231 |
1231 |
31231 |
Accidents and incidents
- In August 1926, a F1 class locomotive overran buffers at London Bridge and crashed into a brewery.[3]
References
- ↑ Casserley, H.C. and Johnston, S.W., Locomotives at the Grouping 1, Southern Railway, page 25, Ian Allan, 1974, ISBN 0711005524
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