What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?

No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........

ROB

Robert Flint wrote:

> What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
> 4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?
>
> No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........


The Scottish Region had soms Class Y9 0-4-0s coupled to 4-wheel wooden
tenders until the early 1960s.

However, you might not consider these 'proper' tenders, as they are
pretty obviously converted wagons, and carry only coal.

One is illustrated at:

http://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk/kipps.htm

"Robert Flint"  wrote in message
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> What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
> 4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?
>
> No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........
>
> ROB
>
>

How about Peppercorn A2 Pacific No. 60532 "Blue Peter"?
Withdrawn from service at Aberdeen Ferryhill on 31st December 1966
(according to "The Power of the A2s" by Gavin Morrison)

David at brsince78 dot co dot uk wrote:

> "Robert Flint"  wrote in message
> news:tXMNe.12748$4y6.9023@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> > What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
> > 4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?
> >
> > No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........
> >
> > ROB
> >
> >
> How about Peppercorn A2 Pacific No. 60532 "Blue Peter"?
> Withdrawn from service at Aberdeen Ferryhill on 31st December 1966
> (according to "The Power of the A2s" by Gavin Morrison)



Surely that's a 4 *axle* tender.....

David

"David at brsince78 dot co dot uk"  wrote 
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> "Robert Flint"  wrote in message
> news:tXMNe.12748$4y6.9023@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
>> What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
>> 4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?
>>
>> No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........
>>
>> ROB

> How about Peppercorn A2 Pacific No. 60532 "Blue Peter"?
> Withdrawn from service at Aberdeen Ferryhill on 31st December 1966
> (according to "The Power of the A2s" by Gavin Morrison)


8 wheeled tender on an A2, I believe, not 4 wheeled.
-- 
David Biddulph

In article <tXMNe.12748$4y6.9023@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>,
Robert Flint   wrote:

>What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
>4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?
>
>No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........


Almost certainly the Sharp, Stewart standard goods engine, as
supplied to a whole host of railways in the 1860s and
1870s (I think the Furness got the last to be built, some
time in the 1880s). Two of these lasted until after WW2
in GWR service as they were the only engines light enough
for some branches. One of 'em had picked up a 6-wheel tender
at one point, but I'm pretty sure the other one had a 4-wheel
tender until the end.

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
		"Time has stopped, says the Black Lion clock
  		 and eternity has begun" (Dylan Thomas)

Oops.... serves me right for trying to be clever late at night........

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> "David at brsince78 dot co dot uk" 
wrote
> in message news:3mppd5F140d52U1@individual.net...
> > "Robert Flint"  wrote in message
> > news:tXMNe.12748$4y6.9023@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> >> What was the last class of mainline steam locomotive in the UK with a
> >> 4 wheeled tender to be in revenue earning service?
> >>
> >> No prizes or anything, I'm just curious..........
> >>
> >> ROB
>
> > How about Peppercorn A2 Pacific No. 60532 "Blue Peter"?
> > Withdrawn from service at Aberdeen Ferryhill on 31st December 1966
> > (according to "The Power of the A2s" by Gavin Morrison)
>
> 8 wheeled tender on an A2, I believe, not 4 wheeled.
> -- 
> David Biddulph
>
>