The GER Class C32 was a class of fifty steam locomotives designed by James Holden and built by the company's Stratford Works between 1892 and 1902. They all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 grouping and received the classification F3.
History These locomotives were fitted with cylinders and diameter driving wheels. They were a tank engine version of the T26 class s, albeit with a shorter coupled wheelbase. They shared the same type of boiler as that class, as well as the N31 and later Y14 class s. They were intended for use on long-distance stopping services, and so they were all initially fitted with Westinghouse air brake equipment.
+ Table of orders and numbers Year Order Builder Quantity GER Nos. LNER Nos. 1946 No. Notes 1893 C32 Stratford Works 10 1090–1099 8090–8099 7114–710 1893 O33 Stratford Works 10 1070–1079 8070–8079 7121–7127 1894 R33 Stratford Works 10 1080–1089 8080–8089 7128–7132 1895 G35 Stratford Works 10 1060–1069 8060–8069 7133–7140 1902 D53 Stratford Works 10 1040–1049 8040–8049 7141–7150
The R33 and D53 batches had been fitted with condensing equipment from new, but the LNER gradually removed them from all but one locomotive, the exception being an early retirement.
All had survived to pass to the LNER in 1923; the first retirement started in 1936 when 8090 was withdrawn.
Thirty-seven locomotives lasted long enough to be renumbered in the 1946 scheme; fifteen of them became the property of British Railways in 1948, but only three of them lasted long enough to receive their BR number.
+ Table of withdrawals Year Quantity inservice atstart of year Quantitywithdrawn Locomotive numbers 1936 50 1 8090 1937 49 4 8069, 8074, 8076, 8098 1938 45 8 8065, 8073, 8080, 8083, 8084, 8086, 8087, 8091 1947 37 22 7116/18/21–23/25/29–33/35–38/42/44–48(ex-8094/96/99/70–73/77/82/85/88/89/60/62–64/66/41/43–47) 1948 15 7 7114, 7115, 7117, 7119, 7134, 7141, 7143(ex-8092, 8093, 8095, 8097, 8061, 8040, 8042) 1949 8 3 7140, 67149, 7150(ex-8068, 8048, 8049) 1950 5 4 7124, 7126, 67128, 7139(ex-8075, 8078, 8081, 8067) 1953 1 1 67127 (ex-1079)
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