L&YR Class 26

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Henry Hoy
Builder	Horwich Works
Order number	Lot 49
Serial number	861–880
Build date	October 1903 – August 1904
Total produced	20

Specifications
Configuration	2-6-2T
UIC class	1′C1′ n2t
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)
Leading dia	3 ft 7 ³⁄₄ in (1.111 m)
Driver diameter	5 ft 8 in (1.727 m)
Trailing dia	3 ft 7 ³⁄₄ in (1.111 m)
Length	42 ft 4 in (12.9 m)
Loco weight	77.50 long tons (78.74 t)
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	3.75 long tons (3.81 t)
Water cap	2,000 imp gal (9,100 l; 2,400 US gal)
Firebox: • Firegrate area	26.0 sq ft (2.42 m²)
Boiler pressure	175 lbf/in² (1.21 MPa)
Heating surface	2,038.6 sq ft (189.39 m²)
Cylinders	Two, inside
Cylinder size	19 in × 26 in (483 mm × 660 mm)
Valve gear	Joy

Performance figures
Tractive effort	19,797 lbf (88.1 kN)

Career
Operators	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway → London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Power class	LMS: 3F
Withdrawn	December 1920 – August 1928
Disposition	All scrapped

The L&YR Class 26 was a class of 2-6-2T steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. It was designed by Henry Hoy and introduced in 1903. Twenty locomotives were built but 3 were withdrawn in 1922, so 17 passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the grouping in 1923.^[1]

Numbering

Table of locomotives ^[2]
L&YR no.	Built	LMS no.	Withdrawn
202	000000001903-10-01-0000Oct 1903	—	000000001920-12-01-0000Dec 1920
387	000000001903-11-01-0000Nov 1903	11700	000000001925-05-01-0000May 1925
404	000000001903-11-01-0000Nov 1903	—	000000001920-12-01-0000Dec 1920
454	000000001903-11-01-0000Nov 1903	11701	000000001926-01-01-0000Jan 1926
467	000000001903-12-01-0000Dec 1903	11702	000000001925-05-01-0000May 1925
527	000000001904-01-01-0000Jan 1904	11703	000000001926-03-01-0000Mar 1926
712	000000001904-02-01-0000Feb 1904	11704	000000001926-08-01-0000Aug 1926
744	000000001904-02-01-0000Feb 1904	11705	000000001926-08-01-0000Aug 1926
837	000000001904-03-01-0000Mar 1904	11706	000000001925-06-01-0000Jun 1925
125	000000001904-03-01-0000Mar 1904	—	000000001923-05-01-0000May 1923
1441	000000001904-04-01-0000Apr 1904	11707	000000001926-08-01-0000Aug 1926
1442	000000001904-04-01-0000Apr 1904	11708	000000001925-07-01-0000Jul 1925
1443	000000001904-05-01-0000May 1904	11709	000000001925-06-01-0000Jun 1925
1444	000000001904-05-01-0000May 1904	11710	000000001925-01-01-0000Jan 1925
1445	000000001904-06-01-0000Jun 1904	11711	000000001924-09-01-0000Sep 1924
1446	000000001904-06-01-0000Jun 1904	11712	000000001926-08-01-0000Aug 1926
1447	000000001904-07-01-0000Jul 1904	11713	000000001926-02-01-0000Feb 1926
1448	000000001904-07-01-0000Jul 1904	11714	000000001925-02-01-0000Feb 1925
1449	000000001904-07-01-0000Jul 1904	11715	000000001924-01-01-00001924
1450	000000001904-08-01-0000Aug 1904	11716	000000001926-08-01-0000Aug 1926

Withdrawal

All had been withdrawn and scrapped by 1926: only two (11704 and 11711) received their LMS number. None have been preserved.

References

↑ Casserley 1966, p. 120.
↑ Baxter 1982, p. 85.

Baxter, Bertram (1982). Baxter, David, ed. British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 3B: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and its constituent companies. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. p. 85. ISBN 0-903485-85-0.
Casserley, H.C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1974) [1966]. Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. p. 120. ISBN 0-7110-0554-0.

External links

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=lok&datum=1914&page=14&size=45

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway locomotives

Jenkins and Hurst (1845-1867}	To be added

Yates and Hurst (1868-1875)	To be added

William Barton Wright (1875-1886)	2 23 25

John Aspinall (1886-1899)	2 (Aspinall) 3 5 7 21 24 27 30

Henry Hoy (1899-1904)	26

George Hughes (1904-1922)	4 6 8 28 30 (Hughes) 30 (Hughes compound) 31 32 4-6-4T

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