The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway A1 class is a class of British 0-6-0T steam locomotive. Designed by William Stroudley, 50 members of the class were built in 1872 and between 1874 and 1880
Class A1 Nos. W11 Newport and W8 Freshwater run round the train at Wootton on the Isle of Wight Railway.
No.55 Stepney carrying the early LB&SCR 'Improved Engine Green' livery
No.672 'Fenchurch' carrying the later LB&SCR umber livery. It is seen at Kingscote with a train of Metropolitan Railway carriages.
Southern Railway 0-6-0T Class A1X W8 Freshwater runs round the train at Wootton on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
William Stroudley was an English railway engineer, and was one of the most famous steam locomotive engineers of the nineteenth century, working principally for the London, Brighton and South Coast Rai
LB&SCR A1 class
…The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) A1 class is a class of British 0-6-0T steam locomotive. Designed by William Stroudley, 50 members of the class were built in 1872 and between 1874 and 1880, all at Brighton railway works. The class has received several nicknames, initially…
A postcard of William Stroudley and one of his G class 2-2-2
A1 class Stepney on the Bluebell Railway
B1 class Gladstone at the National Railway Museum, York, decorated as it was for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897
Plan view of re-railing ramp: "The rescue wagon must carry four ramps, two for derailments on the left and two for those on the right. It is necessary, wherever possible, to place the edges of the ramps on the actual sleepers rather than the ballast, and do not try to draw more than two wagons at a time, for fear of breakages. Ramps for wagons weigh 35 kilos and those for engines 80 kilos."