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The Midland Railway 115 Class is a class of 4-2-2 steam locomotive, nicknamed "Spinners". Sie wurden von Samuel Waite Johnson konstruiert. a total of 15 of the class were built between 1896 and 1899. They were capable of reaching speeds of up to 90 miles per hour (145 km/h).[1]

Fertigungsgeschichte

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Die fünfzehn Lokomotiven der Klasse wurden in zwei Serien, beide bei den Derby Works, gebaut.

Tabelle mit Bestellungen und Nummern[2]
Ursprüngliche Nummer Nummer nach dem Schema 1907 (& LMS) Derby Works
Order No.
Jahr Anmerkungen
115–119 670–674 1474 1896–97
120, 121, 123–128, 130, 131 675–684 1659 1899

Service history

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It was quite common for this class of engine to pull a typical Midland express weighing Vorlage:Convert which suited the Class 115 perfectly. Given a dry rail they could maintain a tight schedule with Vorlage:Convert. Speeds up to 90 mph were not uncommon and the sight of their whirring huge driving wheels earned them the nickname "Spinners". Thanks to the Midland's practice of building low powered locomotives and relying on double-heading to cope with heavier trains many enjoyed working lives of up to 30 years. They made ideal pilot engines for the later Johnson/Deeley 4-4-0 classes.

In the Midland Railway 1907 renumbering scheme, they were assigned numbers 670–684. During World War I most were placed in store but, surprisingly, pressed into service afterwards as pilots on the Nottingham to London coal trains. Twelve locomotives survived to the 1923 grouping, keeping their Midland Railway numbers in London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) service. Nevertheless, by 1927 only three of the class remained, with the last engine, 673 (formerly 118) being withdrawn in 1928 and preserved.

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Year Quantity in
service at
start of year
Quantity
withdrawn
Locomotive numbers Notes
1921 15 2 675, 684
1922 13 1 681
1925 12 2 674, 676
1926 10 8 670–672, 677, 678, 680, 682, 683
1928 2 2 673, 679

No. 673 ist die einzige Überlebende ihrer Klasse. It was steamed around 1976–1980 when it took part in the Rainhill Trials 150th cavalcade but is currently a static exhibit in the National Railway Museum in York.

Commons: Midland Railway 115 Class – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien
  • Bertram Baxter: British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923. Hrsg.: David Baxter. 3A: Midland Railway and its constituent companies. Moorland Publishing Company, Ashbourne, Derbyshire 1982, ISBN 978-0-903485-52-4.
  • Peter Herring: Classic British Steam Locomotives, Abbeydale, Enderby 2000, ISBN 1-86147-057-6
  • H.C. Casserley, Stuart W. Johnston: Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish. Ian Allan, Shepperton, Surrey 1974, ISBN 0-7110-0554-0 ( [1966]).
  • R. J Essery, D. Jenkinson: An Illustrated Review of Midland Locomotives, Volume 2: Passenger tender classes. Wild Swan Publications, Didcot 1988, ISBN 0-906867-59-2.

Einzelnachweise

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  1. Train: The Definitive Visual History. DK Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4654-3658-0, S. 96 (google.com [abgerufen am 20. September 2020]).
  2. Baxter 1982, pp. 134–135
  3. Charles Rous-Marten: "Notable Speed-Trials of British Locomotives." In The Engineering Magazine, vol. XV, no. 1, April 1898, New York, p. 97.

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