The Midland Railway 1532 class was a class of 65 0-4-4T locomotives built by Derby Works between 1881 and 1886 to the design of Samuel W. Johnson. They were a development of the 1252 class. Originally numbered 1532–1551, 1632–1656, and 1718–1737; under the 1907 renumbering scheme they became 1266–1330, and were given the power classification 1P.
Construction history The sixty-five engines of this class were all built by Derby Works using the type C boiler that had also been used on the previous class – the 1252 – and the class before that – the 6 class. The driving wheel diameter was reduced to from the 1252's – the 6 class had used drivers. The wheelbase was the same as the previous two classes, as was the cylinder bore and stroke at . All three classes had their cylinder bore increased to .
+ Table of orders and numbers Original No. 1907 (& LMS) No. Derby WorksOrder No. Year Notes 1532–1551 1266–1285 289 1881–1882 1547–51 fitted with condensing gear 1632–1636 1286–1290 415 1883 1637–1656 1291–1310 460 1884 1718–1727 1311–1320 538 1886 1718–25 fitted with condensing gear 1728–1737 1321–1330 589 1886
Service history All were in service at the 1907 renumbering, and all bar three passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 Grouping, the exceptions were two that had been withdrawn and a third No. 1305, that had been transferred to the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway in January 1921; it came into LMS stock when the S&DJR stock was absorbed in January 1930.
Withdrawals started in 1919, and fourteen locomotives were still in LMS stock at the end of 1947, to be inherited by British Railways.
No. 1307 was withdrawn in January 1948; in March the remaining thirteen (1272/73/75/78/90/95/98, 1303/15/22/24/30) were allocated the BR numbers 58039–58051, although five did not receive their BR numbers before their withdrawal. The last, 58051 was withdrawn in October 1956.
None were preserved.
+ Table of withdrawals Year Quantity inservice atstart of year Quantitywithdrawn Locomotive numbers Notes 1919 65 1 1281 1920 64 1 1282 1921 63 1 1305 to S&DJR 54 1924 62 3 1280, 1311/19 1925 59 5 1268/70, 1314/16/23 1926 54 1 1283 1927 53 2 1271/84 1930 51 7 1291/99, 1304/08/18/26/28 1305 absorbed from S&DJR 1931 45 6 1285/88-89/92, 1305/20 1933 39 1 1317 1934 38 4 1309-10/13/21 1935 34 6 1266/69/93, 1306/12/29 1936 28 1 1301 1937 27 3 1274/79, 1325 1938 24 3 1276/96, 1300 1940 21 1 1327 1944 20 1 1267 1946 19 5 1277/86/94/97, 1302 1948 14 3 1272/90, 1307 1949 11 1 1315 1950 10 2 1322, 58041 1951 8 4 58042–43/45–46 1952 4 1 58047 1953 3 1 1324 1955 2 1 58040 1956 1 1 58051
Models Bachmann Branchline announced on 8 January 2017 that it would be producing models of the class in Midland Railway Maroon, LMS Black and BR Black. An SDJR Prussian Blue Livery was also made for the Collector Club
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