GER Class C32 explained

GER Class C32
LNER Class F3
Powertype:Steam
Designer:James Holden
Builder:Stratford Works
Builddate:1893–1895 (40), 1902 (10)
Totalproduction:50
Uicclass:1B1 n2t
Leadingdiameter:4feet
Driverdiameter:5feet
Trailingdiameter:4feet
Length:34feet over buffers
Watercap:1460impgal
Boilerpressure:1602NaN2
Firearea:18square feet
Tubearea:1063.8square feet
Fireboxarea:100.9square feet
Totalsurface:1164.7square feet
Cylindercount:Two, inside
Cylindersize:NaNx
Valvegear:Stephenson
Valvetype:Slide valves
Tractiveeffort:147002NaN2
Locobrakes:Westinghouse air
Trainbrakes:Westinghouse air
Axleloadclass:LNER: Route availability 3
Powerclass:BR: 1P
Withdrawndate:1936–1953
Disposition:All scrapped

The GER Class C32 was a class of fifty steam locomotives designed by James Holden and built by the company's Stratford Works between 1892 and 1902. They all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 grouping and received the classification F3.

History

These locomotives were fitted with NaNx cylinders and 5feet diameter driving wheels. They were a tank engine version of the T26 class s, albeit with a 3inches shorter coupled wheelbase. They shared the same type of boiler as that class, as well as the N31 and later Y14 class s. They were intended for use on long-distance stopping services, and so they were all initially fitted with Westinghouse air brake equipment.

Notes
1893 C32 10 1090–1099 8090–8099 7114–710
1893 O33 10 1070–1079 8070–8079 7121–7127
1894 R33 10 1080–1089 8080–8089 7128–7132
1895 G35 10 1060–1069 8060–8069 7133–7140
1902 D53 10 1040–1049 8040–8049 7141–7150

The R33 and D53 batches had been fitted with condensing equipment from new, but the LNER gradually removed them from all but one locomotive, the exception being an early retirement.

All had survived to pass to the LNER in 1923; the first retirement started in 1936 when 8090 was withdrawn.

Thirty-seven locomotives lasted long enough to be renumbered in the 1946 scheme; fifteen of them became the property of British Railways in 1948, but only three of them lasted long enough to receive their BR number.

Table of withdrawals! Year !! Quantity in
service at
start of year !! Quantity
withdrawn !! Locomotive numbers
1936 50 1 align=left 8090
1937 49 4 align=left 8069, 8074, 8076, 8098
1938 45 8 align=left 8065, 8073, 8080, 8083, 8084, 8086, 8087, 8091
1947 37 22 align=left 7116/18/21–23/25/29–33/35–38/42/44–48
(ex-8094/96/99/70–73/77/82/85/88/89/60/62–64/66/41/43–47)
1948 15 7 align=left 7114, 7115, 7117, 7119, 7134, 7141, 7143
(ex-8092, 8093, 8095, 8097, 8061, 8040, 8042)
1949 8 3 align=left 7140, 67149, 7150
(ex-8068, 8048, 8049)
1950 5 4 align=left 7124, 7126, 67128, 7139
(ex-8075, 8078, 8081, 8067)
1953 1 1 align=left 67127 (ex-1079)

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