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British Railways (SR) – ‘O2 Class’ 0-4-4T ‘W32 Bonchurch’ at Newport Station Newport platform 3 with the down service to Sandown. On Platform 2, ‘E1 Class’ 0-6-0T No.W3 ‘Ryde’ (No.154 'Madrid) running round to take service back
The LSWR O2 Class is a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotive designed for the London and South Western Railway by William Adams. Sixty were constructed during the late nineteenth century. They were also the last steam engines to work on the Isle of Wight, with the final two being withdrawn in 1967.
Adams was presented with the problem of a greatly increasing volume of commuter traffic experienced with the suburbanisation of London during the 1880s This was exacerbated by the fact that there were few locomotive classes in the LSWR stable that could undertake commuter traffic at the desired level of efficiency The LSWR therefore required a locomotive with attributes of power and compactness, with a small wheel size to gain acceleration on intensive timetables. Adams settled upon the 0-4-4T wheel arrangement to provide the basis of what was to become the O2 Class
The class is usually best associated with the Isle of Wight railway system, with the Isle of Wight Central Railway making enquires as to the possibility of purchasing some class members in the early twentieth century. This plan fell through, however, and it was not until after Grouping in 1923 that the newly formed Southern Railway was forced to resolve the desperate locomotive power situation on the Isle of Wight.
W32 ‘Bonchurch’ was built as No, 226 by LSWR at Nine Elms Works in 1892 and was shipped to the Isle of Wight 1928 and was based at 71E Newport Shed, it remained there until 1965, it was scrapped on the Island.
E1 Class No.W3 ‘Ryde’ (154 ‘Madrid’, 2154) was built at Brighton Works in 1881, it was transferred to the Isle of Wight in 1932 when it was renumbered W3 Ryde, it was allocated to 71E Newport Shed and ended up at 71F Ryde St Johns Road shed where it remained until it was withdrawal in 1959. It probably ended up at Eastleigh Works (BR) to be scrapped in 1960.
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
Photographer unknown - taken at Newport Station, IOW in 1950. Newport Station closed in 1966.
British Railways (SR) – ‘O2 Class’ 0-4-4T ‘W32 Bonchurch’ at Newport Station Newport platform 3 with the down service to Sandown. On Platform 2, ‘E1 Class’ 0-6-0T No.W3 ‘Ryde’ (No.154 'Madrid) running round to take service back
The LSWR O2 Class is a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotive designed for the London and South Western Railway by William Adams. Sixty were constructed during the late nineteenth century. They were also the last steam engines to work on the Isle of Wight, with the final two being withdrawn in 1967.
Adams was presented with the problem of a greatly increasing volume of commuter traffic experienced with the suburbanisation of London during the 1880s This was exacerbated by the fact that there were few locomotive classes in the LSWR stable that could undertake commuter traffic at the desired level of efficiency The LSWR therefore required a locomotive with attributes of power and compactness, with a small wheel size to gain acceleration on intensive timetables. Adams settled upon the 0-4-4T wheel arrangement to provide the basis of what was to become the O2 Class
The class is usually best associated with the Isle of Wight railway system, with the Isle of Wight Central Railway making enquires as to the possibility of purchasing some class members in the early twentieth century. This plan fell through, however, and it was not until after Grouping in 1923 that the newly formed Southern Railway was forced to resolve the desperate locomotive power situation on the Isle of Wight.
W32 ‘Bonchurch’ was built as No, 226 by LSWR at Nine Elms Works in 1892 and was shipped to the Isle of Wight 1928 and was based at 71E Newport Shed, it remained there until 1965, it was scrapped on the Island.
E1 Class No.W3 ‘Ryde’ (154 ‘Madrid’, 2154) was built at Brighton Works in 1881, it was transferred to the Isle of Wight in 1932 when it was renumbered W3 Ryde, it was allocated to 71E Newport Shed and ended up at 71F Ryde St Johns Road shed where it remained until it was withdrawal in 1959. It probably ended up at Eastleigh Works (BR) to be scrapped in 1960.
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
Photographer unknown - taken at Newport Station, IOW in 1950. Newport Station closed in 1966.