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SR Merchant Navy class
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The
Southern Railway (UK) Southern Railway (SR) '''Merchant Navy Class''' is a class of
4-6-2 steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. Thirty were built incorporating a number of novel design features, including an oil bath for the train-driven valve gear, oval smokebox door and an unusually shaped smokebox. The SR considered naming them after cathedrals, then victories of World War II (a mocked-up nameplate "Graf Spee" was produced). They were eventually named for the major shipping companies of the time, a few of which still exist.
The SR number followed the
UIC classification system where "2" and "1" refer to the number of leading and trailing axles respectively, and "C" refers to the number of driving axles - in this case three. All the locomotives therefore carry the prefix 21C. The final batch of ten engines was built after nationalisation and never carried an SR number.
The class were built in three series:
21C1-21C10: Completed 1941-1942
21C11-21C20: Completed 1944-1945
35021-35030: Completed 1948-1949.(These locomotives were completed after the nationalisation of Britain's railways, and were given their BR numbers from new)
The novel features mentioned earlier caused trouble, and BR, under RG Jarvis, set about rebuilding the class. The first, 35018 "British India Line", emerged from Eastleigh in 1956. The last, 35028 "Clan Line" was outshopped in 1960.
The last few engines in traffic survived until the end of steam on the Southern Region in the summer of 1967.
Many of the class have survived in to preservation due to the famous "Barry Scrapyard" (Where BR steam engines which had been purchased from the railways for scrap were not cut up), although one engine, 35028 "Clan Line" was bought by artist David Sheppard direct from BR.
35005, 35006, 35010, 35011, 35018, 35022, 35025, 35027, 35028, and 35029 still exist.
They were designed by
Oliver Bulleid. The
SR West Country Class were lighter versions.
List of Engines and their names
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''BR No.''' || '''SR No.''' || '''Name''' || '''Builder''' || '''Built''' || '''Withdrawn''' || '''Notes'''
|-
| 35001 || 21C1 || ''
Channel Packet'' || || || ||
|-
| 35002 || 21C2 || ''
Union Castle'' || || || ||
|-
| 35003 || 21C3 || ''
Royal Mail Line Royal Mail'' || || || ||
|-
| 35004 || 21C4 || ''
Cunard Line Cunard White Star'' || || || ||
|-
| 35005 || 21C5 || ''
CP Ships Canadian Pacific'' || || || ||
|-
| 35006 || 21C6 || ''
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.'' || || || ||
|-
| 35007 || 21C7 || ''
Aberdeen Commonwealth'' || || || ||
|-
| 35008 || 21C8 || ''
Orient Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35009 || 21C9 || ''
Shaw Savill'' || || || ||
|-
| 35010 || 21C10 || ''
Blue Star Line Blue Star'' || || || ||
|-
| 35011 || 21C11 || ''
General Steam Navigation'' || || || ||
|-
| 35012 || 21C12 || ''
United States Lines'' || || || ||
|-
| 35013 || 21C13 || ''
Blue Funnel'' || || || ||
|-
| 35014 || 21C14 || ''
Nederland Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35015 || 21C15 || ''
Rotterdam Lloyd'' || || || ||
|-
| 35016 || 21C16 || ''
Elder Fyffes'' || || || ||
|-
| 35017 || 21C17 || ''
Belgian Marine'' || || || ||
|-
| 35018 || 21C18 || ''
British India Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35019 || 21C19 || ''
French Line CGT'' || || || ||
|-
| 35020 || 21C20 || ''
Bibby Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35021 || - || ''
New Zealand Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35022 || - || ''
Holland America Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35023 || - || ''
Holland Afrika Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35024 || - || ''
East Asiatic Company'' || || || ||
|-
| 35025 || - || ''
Brocklebank Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35026 || - || ''
Lamport & Holt Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35027 || - || ''
Port Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35028 || - || ''
Clan Line'' || || || ||
|-
| 35029 || - || ''
Ellerman Lines'' || || || ||
|-
| 35030 || - || ''
Elder Dempster Lines'' || || || ||
|}
External links
-
Southern e-group page
{{SR Locomotives}}
Category:4-6-2 locomotives
Category:Southern Railway locomotives Merchant Navy
Category:Streamlined steam locomotives
see
SR Merchant Navy Class
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