I have talked about the 56XX series before after my first visit this year to the YDR at Embsay. Well here are a few more details of that class. I well remember them from my Cardiff days when they were tasked with bot local passenger as well as the heavy goods they were first designed for.
Cylinders | (2) 18 x 26 inches | Driving wheel diameter | 4 feet 7½ inches |
Trailing wheel dia | 3 feet 8 inches | Tractive Effort | 25,800 pounds |
Boiler type | Number 2 | Boiler maximum dia. | 5 feet 0½ inches |
Boiler minimum dia. | 4 feet 5 1/8 inches | Fire tubes, no. & dia. | 218 x 1 5/8 inches |
Flue tubes, no. & dia. | 6 x 5 1/8 inches | Superheater tubes, no. & dia. | 36 x 1 inch |
Boiler pressure | 200 lbs/square inch. | Boiler length | 11 feet 0 inches |
Area of firegrate | 20.35 square feet | Heating surfaces, tubes | 1,144.94 square feet |
Heating surfaces, firebox | 121.8 square feet | Heating surfaces, superheater | 82.2 square feet |
My thanks to wikepedia for the above.
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