They were also known officially as the Express Goods 5 ft 0in, and unofficially as the Crested Goods or Cauliflower Class, due to the application of the large LNWR crest on the middle splasher in the original livery.[2]
Design
The design featured a boiler pressed to 150 lbf/in2 (1.03 MPa) delivering saturated steam to two 18 by 24 in (457 by 610 mm) cylinders connected by Joy valve gear to the driving wheels.
The dimensions quoted in the class title could be misleading: several locomotives ran for a period with 17-or-17+1⁄2-inch (432 or 444 mm) cylinders; and the “5ft 0in” referred to the diameter of the wheel centres – measured of the tyres the diameter was 5 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1,588 mm).
Sixty-nine locomotives entered
British Railways (BR) stock in 1948. BR allocated them the numbers 58362–58430, as adding 40000 to their numbers as was done with most ex-LMS locomotives would have taken them into the 6xxxx ex-
LNER series. The last one was withdrawn from British Railways service in 1955. None were preserved.
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