Midland Railway 3835 Class

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gaugeDriver dia.63 in (1,600 mm)WheelbaseLoco: 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) + 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)Loco weight48 long tons 15 cwt (109,200 lb or 49.5 t)Fuel typeCoalBoilerG7SBoiler pressure175 lbf/in2 (1.21 MPa) superheatedSuperheaterSchmidtCylindersTwo, insideCylinder size20 in × 26 in (508 mm × 660 mm)Valve gearStephensonValve typePiston valves
Performance figures
Tractive effort24,555 lbf (109.23 kN)
Career
OperatorsMR, SDJR, LMS, BR
ClassMR: 3835
Power classMR: 4
LMS: 4F
Number in classMR: 192
SDJR: 5
Numbers
  • LMS: 3835–4026
  • BR: 43835–44026
Retired1954–1965
DispositionOne preserved, remainder scrapped

The Midland Railway (MR) 3835 Class is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed for freight work. The first two were introduced in 1911 by Henry Fowler. After the grouping in 1923, the designs were slightly modified and continued to be built up to 1941 by the LMS as the LMS Fowler Class 4F.[1]

History

A total of 197 engines were built. 192 of them were sequentially numbered 3835–4026 for the Midland Railway. After nationalisation in 1948 British Railways added 40000 to their numbers so they became 43835–44026. Five engines were constructed by Armstrong Whitworth for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in 1922, numbered 57–61. They were absorbed into LMS stock in 1930, becoming 4557–4561.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 19 November 1926, locomotive No. 3980 was one of two hauling a freight train. One of the private owner wagons disintegrated, derailing the train at Parkgate and Rawmarsh, Yorkshire. A signal post was partly brought down, obstructing an adjacent line. The carriages of an express passenger train had their sides ripped open by the signal post. Eleven people were killed.[2]
  • On 6 March 1930, locomotive No. 4009 was hauling a ballast train that was in collision with a passenger train, hauled by Ex-LNWR Claughton Class 4-6-0 No. 5971, at Langwathby station, Cumberland. The passenger train had departed from Culgaith against signals. Two people were killed and four were seriously injured.[3]

Withdrawal

The 197 engines in this class were withdrawn between 1954 and 1965 as follows:

Table of withdrawals[4]
Year Quantity in
service at
start of year		 Quantity
withdrawn		 Locomotive numbers
1954 197 1 43862
1955 196 5 43835/67/94, 43909, 44006
1956 191 8 43874–75/95, 43936/43/56/74, 44024
1957 183 19 43837–38/47/51–52/57/89/91/98,
43901/12/16/27/41/59/80/92–93,
44017
1958 164 4 43879/92, 43978, 44021
1959 160 36 43836/41–42/58/60/64/66/73/77–78/81/86/90/96,
43904/07/10/19/26/30/34/39/46/60–61/65–66/70/84/90/97–98,
44000/05/14/18
1960 124 8 43839–40/43/68/97, 43973/89, 44019
1961 116 15 43846/63/72/83–84,
43900/05/11/20–22/44/48/62,
44002
1962 101 22 43844/48–49/59/69/76/99,
43902/14/32–33/38/85/96,
44001/04/08/11/16/20, 44557/61
1963 79 23 43845/53/55/61/70/82,
43915/35/37/42/45/55/69/77/87/95,
44010/12–13/15/22/26, 44559
1964 56 34 43850/54/56/71/80/85/88,
43903/08/17/23/25/28–29/31/40/47/49/51/54/57–58/63/71–72/76/79/86/88,
44007/09/23/25, 44558
1965 22 22 43865/87/93,
43906/13/18/24/50/52–53/64/67–68/75/81–83/91/94/99,
44003, 44560

Preservation

43924 at Oxenhope, KVWR

One Midland-built 4F, (4)3924 is preserved on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, the first locomotive to leave Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in September 1968.[5][6]

Models

Bachmann Branchline 3835 Class in OO gauge, which was also adapted into Graham Farish N gauge model.

Product Ref. No. Livery
31-880 3851 LMS unlined black, number on loco.
31-882 43875 BR black, early crest
31-883 3848 Midland Railway black
31-884 44044 BR black, late crest

Hornby introduced a OO gauge model of 3924 in 2022 to celebrate the film "Return of the Railway Children" which featured this locomotive. The model is in a variation of LMS unlined black.

References

  1. ^ Duggan, Jamie (14 July 2018). "MR 3835 / LMS Fowler 4F Class steam locomotives - Class Information". RailAdvent. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  2. ^ Earnshaw 1993, pp. 14–15.
  3. ^ Hall 1990, p. 95.
  4. ^ Baxter 1982, pp. 180–183.
  5. ^ Devereux, Nigel (8 January 2018). "PRESERVATION HISTORY: ALEXANDER MACDONALD – FROM SCRAP TO SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS: THE 43924 STORY". No. 236. Heritage Magazine. Heritage Magazine. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  6. ^ "The Barry Scrapyard story, part 2". The Great Western Archive - part1. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
  • Baxter, Bertram (1982). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923. Vol. 3A: Midland Railway and its constituent companies. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. ISBN 9780903485524.
  • Baxter, Bertram (1984). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 4: Scottish and remaining English Companies in the LMS Group. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company.
  • Casserley, H. C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1974) [1966]. Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0554-0.
  • Earnshaw, Alan (1993). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 8. Penryn: Atlantic Books. ISBN 0-906899-52-4.
  • Hall, Stanley (1990). The Railway Detectives. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1929-0.

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