LB&SCR E2 Class

photograph: Mike Morant collection

E2 class NºB107, one of the later batch with extended side tanks, is seen here in early Southern Railway days away from her home turf at Ashford.

The first of Lawson Billinton's own designs for the LB&SCR was a relatively modest 0-6-0T to replace some of the early Stroudley E1 goods locos, the class E2.

This engine had the now customary curved drop at each end of the platform, slotted frames, a similar boiler of 170 lb sq in and the same cylinders as the I2 class. With 4' 6" drivers and 1,090 gallon water capacity, five were built between May and December 1913. Five more were built to a modified design between May 1915 and September 1916 with longer tanks incorporating a cut out to give access to the motion and therefore increased water capacity of 1,256 gallons. Normally used as goods or shunting engines, two from the first batch were to be found in 1914 working six coach pull and push trains between London Bridge and Crystal Palace, wearing the passenger livery. With these the engine was in the middle and they were not a success! The engines had insufficient coal capacity and the experiment was abandoned during the same year. When doing the work for which they were intended they were very useful engines, one of their duties in the late 1930s was to bring in the stock for the "Night Ferry" and then bank the train out of Victoria.

Now numbered as Nº32107 the same engine is seen here in very early British Railways days still carrying "SOUTHERN" on her tanks but with the new number on the bunker sides.

photograph: A J Wills photographic collection

32109 working at Southampton Docks.

photograph: Mike Morant collection

32104 and 32109 photographed together at Southampton docks on 6th April 1963. This shows the difference in the side tanks fitted to the earlier and later batches.

photograph: Gerald T. Robinson/Mike Morant collection

Technical Details

Introduced: May 1913
Driving Wheel: 4 ft 6 ins
Total Weight: 100-104: 52 tons 15 cwt, 105-109: 53 tons 10 cwt
Water Capacity: 100-104: 1,090 galls, 105-109 1,256 gals
Cylinders (2): 17½ in x 26 in)
Boiler Pressure: 170 lb sq in
Tractive Effort: 21,305 lb
Power Classification: 3-F

LBSC Nº	SR Nº #	BR Nº	Built	Withdrawn
100	2100	32100	Jun 1913	Nov 1961
101	2101	32101	Aug 1913	Sep 1962
102	2102	32102	Oct 1913	Oct 1961
103	2103	32103	Dec 1913	Oct 1962
104	2104	32104	Jan 1914	Apr 1963
105	2105	32105	Jun 1915	Sep 1962
106	2106	32106	Sep 1915	Oct 1962
107	2107	32107	Mar 1916	Feb 1961
108	2108	32108	Jul 1916	Jun 1961
109	2109	32109	Oct 1916	Apr 1963
# Between 1923 and 1928 SR numbers were the LBSC numbers with the added prefix 'B' although the new number may not have been applied until some time later

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