Metropolitan Railway A and B Class locomotives
The engines of the world's first underground railway, fitted with condensing gear to cut smoke in the tunnels. They burned coke, then smokeless Welsh coal from 1869. Electrification displaced them around 1905–07, though a few did departmental work into the 1930s.
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- Type
- Steam locomotive (4-4-0 condensing tank)
- Builder
- Beyer, Peacock & Co., Manchester
- Built
- 1864–1885
- In service
- 1864–1907
- Lines
- Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City
- Preserved
- A Class No. 23 (1866) at London Transport Museum, Covent Garden
Sources
- Metropolitan Railway A Class, Wikipedia
- Metropolitan Railway A Class locomotive No. 23, London Transport Museum
unverified numbers built (sources differ: 40 or 44 A Class, 22 or 26 B Class)