Midland Railway 1116A Class Explained

Midland Railway 1116A class
Powertype:Steam
Builder:MR Derby Works
Ordernumber:1162 (5), 1534 (5)
Builddate:1893 (5), 1897 (5)
Totalproduction:10
Whytetype:0-4-0ST
Uicclass:B n2t
Driverdiameter:3feet
Fueltype:Coal
Boilerpressure:1402NaN2
Cylindercount:Two
Cylindersize:13x
Valvegear:Stephenson
Tractiveeffort:87442NaN2
Powerclass:MR: Unclassified
Withdrawndate:1921-1936, 1955
Disposition:All scrapped

The Midland Railway 1116A Class was a class of 0-4-0ST for shunting. Ten were built at Derby in the 1890s, five in 1893 and five in 1897. They were closely related to the 1322 and 1134A classes.

Construction history

The ten locomotives were built at Derby Works in two batches of 5 each in 1893 and 1897. They were numbered initially as 1116A–1120A, 2359–2360 and 1131A–1133A, the A suffix indicating the duplicate list. They were renumbered as 1508–1517 in 1907.

Disposal

All were still in service at the Midland's 1907 renumbering. The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1921, leaving nine to pass to the LMS at the 1923 grouping. All but one were withdrawn by 1936, with the survivor being retired in 1955, having been renumbered 41516 by British Railways. All members of the class were scrapped.

Table of withdrawals! Year !! Quantity in
service at
start of year !! Quantity
withdrawn !! Locomotive numbers !! Notes
1921 10 1 align=left 1512 align=left
1925 9 3 align=left 1509, 1513, 1517 align=left
1926 6 2 align=left 1508, 1515 align=left
1928 4 1 align=left 1511 align=left Sold to Pentrich Colliery
1930 3 1 align=left 1514 align=left
1936 2 1 align=left 1510 align=left
1955 1 1 align=left 41516 align=left

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