LBSCR A1 / A1x class 0-6-0T
| In total 50 were built, but by the end of the nineteenth century the need for so many had been reduced. Not only that, but after 30 years of intensive working, many of these small engines were literally worn out, and a proportion were scrapped in the first few years of the 20th century and several sold off. It was proposed to scrap the rest, but with the introduction of 'motor-trains' (push-pull) the 'Terriers' were found to be useful. For this use, new boilers were fitted, and other modifications carried out, and so the 'Terrier' became the A1X. Others had been sold to private industrial users and other railways over the previous 10 years or so. This included 2 to the LSWR for use on the Lyme Regis branch, to the SECR and to lesser lines. |
| LBSCR Nº82 Boxhill, on foreign soil
at Guildford shed in 1949 and pictured after being preserved. This loco was
used as Brighton Works shunter 380S between 1920 and 1947 and is the closest to
an original A1 that you can get, although the Southern Railway exchanged the
chimney for a "slim-line" Drummond one. She was painted in full
Stroudley livery in 1946 and reverted to being Nº82 when withdrawn and
preserved. Boxhill, together with Nº81 Beulah was
temporarily converted to 2-4-0T for Brighton-Worthing and Brighton-Kemp Town light pull and push train working.
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
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The equivalent loco at Lancing Carriage Works was Nº680S -
seen here in Southern Railway days. She started life as LBSCR Nº54
Waddon, later Nº654, and was sold to the SECR in 1904
to become their Nº751 in full Wainwright livery. Following the formation
of the Southern Railway she became A751 and was taken into service stock as 680S
in 1932. Withdrawn in 1962 680S was restored to full LBSCR Stroudley livery at
Eastliegh prior to being sent to the Delson Museum, near Montreal, Canada.
Never rebuilt as an A1x, 680S was fitted the boiler from A1x 678, so is now
neither a true A1, nor A1x!
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
| W8 & W13 at Eastleigh. Recently repatriated from the Isle
of Wight, they've had their nameplates removed and are awaiting repainting
prior to further use on the mainland. W8 is in plain black and W13 is in
malachite, with the BRITISH RAILWAYS in Southern railway lettering. Following a
light overhaul, they were renumbered 32646 and 32677 respectively but their
liveries remained the same as when they were on the Island (apart from, of
course, removal of the nameplates) and both worked on the Hayling Island
branch. 32677 thus operated in malachite green on the mainland and was not
painted lined black until September 1952.
photograph: Mike Morant collection> |
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515S was formerly Nº50 Whitechapel, renumbered 650
by the LB&SCR and B650 by the Southern Railway, she was sent to the Isle of
Wight as W9 Fishbourne in 1930, repatriated to the mainland in 1930 she
took the number 2650 but then sent to Lancing Carriage Works in 1937 as 515S.
She was returned to capital stock in 1953 as 32650, her sixth number! Withdrawn
in 1964 she was sold to Sutton Borough Council and was subsequently loaned to
the K&ESR. Quite a career!
photograph: A J Wills Photographic Collection |
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