Steam Memories

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 Two hundred locomotives were built and remained in service until withdrawn by British Railways between 1962 and 1965.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.