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Tuesday 16 August 2011

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

The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1924 and 1928. They were designed by C.B Collett for the Great Western Railway (GWR), and were introduced into traffic in 1924. Two hundred locomotives were built and remained in service until withdrawn by British Railways between 1962 and 1965. Nine of the class have survived into preservation.


My thanks to wikepedia for the above.

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