SR U class
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The SR U class are 2-6-0 steam locomotives designed by Richard Maunsell for passenger duties on the Southern Railway (SR). The class represented the penultimate stage in the development of the Southern Railway's 2-6-0 "family", which improved upon the basic principles established by GWR Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) George Jackson Churchward for Great Western Railway (GWR) locomotives. The U class design drew from experience with the GWR 4300s and N classes, improved by applying Midland Railway ideas to the design, enabling the SECR to influence development of the 2-6-0 in Britain.
Preserved SR U class No. 1638 on the Bluebell Railway
The prototype K class No. 790 under SECR ownership. All twenty members of the class were rebuilt in 1928 to the U class design following an accident the previous year
K class rebuild number 31803 at Bournemouth during the British Railways era. Note the double spectacle plates on the left-hand cab front next to the boiler
Image: 1618 and train leave Sharpthorne Tunnel, 1992 geograph.org.uk 1652832
2-6-0
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Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-6-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels. This arrangement is commonly called a Mogul.
Canadian National E-10-a class No. 89, now owned by the Strasburg Rail Road
Finnish class Sk1 No 124, built 1885 by Swiss Locomotive & Machine Works, at the Finnish Railway Museum
C1218, a preserved 2-6-0 steam locomotive for Jaladara train.
GS&WR Class 355 under CIÉ operation. The white roundel indicates that it burns oil.