List of BR 'Clan' Class locomotives

Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the BR standard class 6, or 'Clan' Class that ran on the Scottish Region of British Railways' railway network. They represented an attempt to regionalise some of the names of the standard pacifics, resulting in E.S. Cox's decision to name the class after the former Highland Railway's outgoing Clan Class, designed by Christopher Cumming.

Locomotives as constructed

BR No.	Name^[1]	Builder	When built	Withdrawn	Notes
72000	Clan Buchanan	Crewe	000000001951-12-01-0000December 1951	000000001962-12-01-0000December 1962
72001	Clan Cameron	Crewe	000000001951-12-01-0000December 1951	000000001962-12-01-0000December 1962
72002	Clan Campbell	Crewe	000000001952-06-01-0000June 1952	000000001962-12-01-0000December 1962
72003	Clan Fraser	Crewe	000000001952-06-01-0000June 1952	000000001962-12-01-0000December 1962
72004	Clan MacDonald	Crewe	000000001952-07-01-0000July 1952	000000001962-12-01-0000December 1962
72005	Clan MacGregor	Crewe	000000001952-07-01-0000July 1952	000000001965-05-01-0000May 1965	Never fitted with Automatic Warning System (AWS)
72006	Clan MacKenzie	Crewe	000000001952-07-01-0000July 1952	000000001966-05-01-0000May 1966
72007	Clan MacKintosh	Crewe	000000001952-08-01-0000August 1952	000000001965-12-01-0000December 1965
72008	Clan MacLeod	Crewe	000000001952-09-01-0000September 1952	000000001966-04-01-0000April 1966
72009	Clan Stewart	Crewe	000000001952-09-01-0000September 1952	000000001965-08-01-0000August 1965

Unbuilt locomotives

A further 15 'Clans' was projected, but due to an acute shortage of steel, the order was frequently postponed until the advent of the British Railways Modernisation Plan, which led to the order being cancelled. Five of the new locomotives were expected to operate on the Southern Region, and as such, a change in naming style was undertaken with the next five in series. The final ten reverted to Scottish Region parlance. The projected names were selected as thus:

Southern Region.

72010 Hengist, 72011 Horsa, 72012 Canute, 72013 Wildfire, 72014 Firebrand.

Scottish Region.

72015 Clan Colquhoun, 72016 Clan Graham, 72017 Clan MacDougall, 72018 Clan MacLean, 72019 Clan Douglas, 72020 Clan Gordon, 72021 Clan Hamilton, 72022 Clan Kennedy, 72023 Clan Lindsay, 72024 Clan Scott.

The names Hengist and Horsa had been used previously by BR on cross-channel Sealink ships.

New-build of the Next Locomotive in the Series

A start has been made on constructing a new locomotive of the missing batch of 15, number 72010 Hengist. The frames of which are, as of November 2015, at Ian Riley Engineering, Bury. This locomotive project constitutes the commencement of the 1000th locomotive build to a British Railways standard design.^[2] Other parts are show at the Great Central Railway and in store at a location in Burton on Trent.

A build plan has been put together to make a start on assembling the frames for which most parts are prepared. The locomotive build and future operation will be based at the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire.^[3]

Footnotes

↑ Burridge, Frank: Nameplates of the Big Four (Oxford Publishing Company: Oxford, 1975) ISBN 0-902888-43-9
↑ Thomas, Cliff: 'The Lazarus locomotives: BR Standard Class 6' (The Railway Magazine: 1, 2007)
↑ http://www.72010-hengist.org/index.php

References

Burridge, Frank: Nameplates of the Big Four (Oxford Publishing Company: Oxford, 1975) ISBN 0-902888-43-9

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