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The E2 class included several features found on other LB&SCR classes including an I2 class boiler to accommodate the Weir pump and hot water injector for use on high-pressure steam. [1] They had slotted frames, six small 4 ft 6 in (1.372 m) driving wheels, and a water tank capacity of 1,090 imp gal (5,000 L; 1,310 US gal).
The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR (known also as the Brighton line, the Brighton Railway or the Brighton)) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922. Its territory formed a rough triangle, with London at its apex, practically the whole coastline of Sussex as its base, covering a large part of Surrey .
Billinton introduced the E2 class 0-6-0T and the K class 2-6-0 of 1913, and the L class 4-6-4T of 1914. The first Billinton-designed class was the 0-6-0T E2 class of shunting engine, five of which were introduced between June 1913 and January 1914.
The locomotives acquired by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway at its creation in July 1846 came from the division of those owned previously operated by the Joint Committee of the South Eastern, London and Croydon and London and Brighton Railways. The division took place in 1845 but only took effect at the dissolution of the Committee ...
LBSCR 55 A tank engine, named after a district in London, from the Bluebell Railway. In The Railway Series, his friendly and enthusiastic attitude makes him a welcome visitor on the Fat Controller's railway. LB&SCR A1X class: Class 40: BR D4711 A big green diesel engine who once visited the North Western Railway on loan from British Railways.
The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E4 class is a class of 0-6-2T side tank steam locomotive designed by Robert Billinton. They were introduced in 1897 and were essentially a larger version of the E3 Class. The cylinder diameter was reduced from 18 to 17.5 inches (457 to 444 mm) by the Southern Railway.
The 07 class was originally designed to replace steam power on the Southampton Docks network, which at its peak consisted of some 80 miles of track and immediately prior to the introduction of diesel power was operated by six ex-LBSCR 0-6-0 class E2 and fourteen ex-Southern Railway USA class [a] 0-6-0 tank locomotives.
The works in 1846 (detail from an engraving of London Road viaduct).. Brighton railway works (also known as Brighton locomotive works, or just the Brighton works) was one of the earliest railway-owned locomotive repair works, founded in 1840 by the London and Brighton Railway in Brighton, England, and thus pre-dating the more famous railway works at Crewe, Doncaster and Swindon.