BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T
| Designed at Swindon for light passenger duties with what is virtually a GWR "Nº2" Boiler, the class 3MT tank was for the most part a new engine, though influenced by late LMS design trends. They were useful engines, coming halfway between the 4MT tender and 2MT tank engines for power and axle loading. First introduced to traffic during April 1952, they were the fifth of the British Railways Standard locomotive designs. They were mainly based on the South Wales lines of the Western Region though the Southern Region had a number and some examples were based as far away as Darlington and Wrexham. |
| Nº82015 at Eastleigh during 1963.
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
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Nº82029, released from the platform at Waterloo, runs out light engine ready
for the next duty.
photograph by Ray Soper |
| Here Nº82029 is waiting by the Signalbox for the road to set
back into the station.
photograph by Ray Soper |
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Nº82029 buffering up to the empty stock in the platform road.
photograph by Ray Soper |
| Having delivered empty stock from Waterloo to Clapham Junction, Nº82016 and Standard Class 4 2-6-0 Nº76066 are seen passing Queen's Road Battersea on the up Richmond
line heading back towards Waterloo, no doubt for another empty stock working, on 29th August 1964.
photograph by Ray Soper |
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Nº82028 is seen at Wimborne heading a two-coach train from Brockenhurst to
Bournemouth West. This service had been the preserve of push and pull workings
using M7 0-4-4Ts for many years and Nº82028 is hauling a former push and pull
Maunsell set. Note the lampposts and also the raised lettering on the
"Wimborne" Running-In board. Wimborne had an unusually tall signalbox
which is just visible in the smoke immediately behind the chimney of the
locomotive.
photograph by Keith Harwood |
| Nº82005 brings MkI set 525 into Clapham Junction.
photograph by Ray Soper |
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Nº82019 on a goods working, also at Clapham Junction.
photograph by Ray Soper |
| Ten numbers later, and a lot dirtier, Nº82029 is seen on
another goods working at Clapham Common, November 1966. In the background is a
2 Hap in rail blue, sporting the double arrow motif..
photograph by Ray Soper |
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Technical DetailsIntroduced:Driving Wheel: Pony and Trailing Wheels: Length: Weight: Water Capacity: Cylinders: Boiler Pressure: Tractive Effort: Coal Capacity: Power Classification: Route Availability: |
April 19525 ft 3 ins 3 ft 40 ft 10½ ins 74 tons 1 cwt 1,500 gals 17½ in x 26 in 200 lb sq in 21,490 lb 3 tons 3MT 4 |
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