Opinion & Answer 23 Edition Part 30: Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Preservation Classes
Good Sunday Afternoon, everyone. As it's another Sunday, it means another Opinion & Answer to be released here on Steam Train History Blog. On today's edition of Opinion & Answer, we get to dive into some of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway locomotive Classes that have preservation. Except for Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway locomotive "Dot" class, the others will be covered on Saturday February 4th's Steam train Posts. So without further due, lets dive into it.
-Conductor Wolf
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To start off, lets take a look at some details about the L&YR's "Dot" class locomotives that worked at Horwich Works.
9.L&YR Dot class Details
- Railroad/Basic: L&YR {Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway}
- Engine: Dot class
- Designer: Beyer Peacock
- Builder: Beyer, Peacock & Co. & Horwich Works
- Built (Year): 1887-1901 => 8 locomotives
- Beyer, Peacock & Co. => 3 Locomotives
- Horwich Works => 5 Locomotives
- Total: 8 locomotives
- Withdrawn: 1930-1948 =>all 8 real locomotives
- Number of Wheels: 8 wheels
- Configuration: 0-4-0st
- Preserved: 1 real locomotives
- Wren- retired from active duty and put on statistic display
Notes
- 8 real locomotives
- Fit an 18 inch-gauge railway at Horwich Works
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With that out of the way, let's take a look at other L&YR Classes that contain preservation locomotives according to research. Further in-depth details that are similar to the "Dot" class above, will be release on Saturday February 4th.
L&YR Class 25 Locomotive ===>
<=== L&YR Class 23 Locomotive
L&YR Class 21 Locomotive ===>
L&YR Class 5 Locomotive ===>
(That is all for this edition of Opinion & Answer for this Sunday. Please join us for Saturday 2/4/23's Steam Train History Train Post edition where we cover L&YR's classes 5,21,23 & 25 more in-depth) For now please feel free to explore the two links down below for further information.
-Conductor Wolf
