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Southern Railways – ‘E1 Class’ 0-6-0T ‘W2 Yarmouth’ on shed at Newport c1940
The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E1 Class were 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by William Stroudley in 1874 for short-distance goods and piloting duties. William Stroudley's class E 0-6-0 tank engine of 1874 was conceived as a larger, goods, version of his successful "Terrier". Cylinders, motion and boiler were the same as in his D Class 0-4-2 passenger tanks, with variations for the last seven.
The first six locomotives of this useful and long-lived class were built at Brighton and appeared in traffic between September 1874 and March 1875. They performed well and further orders were placed at regular intervals until December 1891 when the class consisted of eighty locomotives and were used throughout the LBSCR system, principally for goods and shunting, but occasionally for secondary passenger duties.
After 1894/5 the class gradually began to be replaced by R.J. Billinton's radial tanks of the E3 and E4 classes. Withdrawals commenced in 1908 when one locomotive was broken up for spares, and others were withdrawn at intervals until May 1914, when the increased need for locomotives during the First World War meant that there were no further withdrawals. One locomotive (no.89) was rebuilt with a larger boiler by D. E. Marsh in 1911 and reclassified E1X and renumbered 89A. However this was rebuilt back to a E1 in 1930 once the boiler was condemned.
Under Southern Railway (Great Britain) ownership, withdrawals continued during the 1920s, with some examples sold to industrial railways rather than scrapped. Eight examples were also rebuilt as 0-6-2 radial tank engines for use in the west of England. These were classified as E1/R.
Four E1s were also transferred for duties on the Isle of Wight in 1932 and 1933. They were renumbered W1-W4 and given names related to the Island.
Thirty examples survived the transfer of ownership to the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948 but during the 1950s they were gradually replaced by diesel shunters. The first withdrawal was LBSCR 93 in May 1908. The last survivor, BR No. 32694, was allocated to Southampton Docks. It was withdrawn in July 1961 and scrapped at Eastleigh Works later that year.
‘W2 Yarmouth’ was built at Brighton Works in 1880 and was shipped to the Isle of Wight in 1933, were it was named ‘Yarmouth’ and was allocated to Newport Shed and remained there until withdrawal in 1956 it ended up being shipped back to Eastleigh Works (BR) to be scrapped the same year.
Photographer Unknown – seen here on shed at Newport c1940
Southern Railways – ‘E1 Class’ 0-6-0T ‘W2 Yarmouth’ on shed at Newport c1940
The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E1 Class were 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by William Stroudley in 1874 for short-distance goods and piloting duties. William Stroudley's class E 0-6-0 tank engine of 1874 was conceived as a larger, goods, version of his successful "Terrier". Cylinders, motion and boiler were the same as in his D Class 0-4-2 passenger tanks, with variations for the last seven.
The first six locomotives of this useful and long-lived class were built at Brighton and appeared in traffic between September 1874 and March 1875. They performed well and further orders were placed at regular intervals until December 1891 when the class consisted of eighty locomotives and were used throughout the LBSCR system, principally for goods and shunting, but occasionally for secondary passenger duties.
After 1894/5 the class gradually began to be replaced by R.J. Billinton's radial tanks of the E3 and E4 classes. Withdrawals commenced in 1908 when one locomotive was broken up for spares, and others were withdrawn at intervals until May 1914, when the increased need for locomotives during the First World War meant that there were no further withdrawals. One locomotive (no.89) was rebuilt with a larger boiler by D. E. Marsh in 1911 and reclassified E1X and renumbered 89A. However this was rebuilt back to a E1 in 1930 once the boiler was condemned.
Under Southern Railway (Great Britain) ownership, withdrawals continued during the 1920s, with some examples sold to industrial railways rather than scrapped. Eight examples were also rebuilt as 0-6-2 radial tank engines for use in the west of England. These were classified as E1/R.
Four E1s were also transferred for duties on the Isle of Wight in 1932 and 1933. They were renumbered W1-W4 and given names related to the Island.
Thirty examples survived the transfer of ownership to the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948 but during the 1950s they were gradually replaced by diesel shunters. The first withdrawal was LBSCR 93 in May 1908. The last survivor, BR No. 32694, was allocated to Southampton Docks. It was withdrawn in July 1961 and scrapped at Eastleigh Works later that year.
‘W2 Yarmouth’ was built at Brighton Works in 1880 and was shipped to the Isle of Wight in 1933, were it was named ‘Yarmouth’ and was allocated to Newport Shed and remained there until withdrawal in 1956 it ended up being shipped back to Eastleigh Works (BR) to be scrapped the same year.
Photographer Unknown – seen here on shed at Newport c1940