1927 built: 148.75 long tons (151.1 t; 166.6 short tons)
1930 built: 152.5 long tons (154.9 t; 170.8 short tons)
Fuel type
Coal
Fuel capacity
1927 built: 7 long tons (7.1 t; 7.8 short tons)
1930 built: 9 long tons (9.1 t; 10 short tons)
Water cap.
4,500 imp gal (20,000 L; 5,400 US gal)
Firebox:
• Grate area
44.5 sq ft (4.13 m2)
Boiler
LMS type Garratt
Boiler pressure
190 lbf/in2 (1.31 MPa)
Heating surface:
• Firebox
183 sq ft (17.0 m2)
• Tubes and flues
1,954 sq ft (181.5 m2)
Superheater:
• Heating area
500 sq ft (46 m2) or 466 sq ft (43.3 m2)
Cylinders
Four, outside
Cylinder size
18+1⁄2 in × 26 in (470 mm × 660 mm)
Valve gear
Walschaerts
Valve type
Piston valves
Performance figures
Tractive effort
45,620 lbf (202.9 kN)
Career
Operators
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
→ British Railways
Class
Garratt
Power class
Not classified
Withdrawn
1955–1958
Disposition
All scrapped
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Garratt was a class of Garratt 2-6-0+0-6-2 steam locomotive designed for heavy freight. A total of 33 were built from 1927, making them the most numerous class of Garratt in Britain.
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Garratt was a class of Garratt 2-6-0+0-6-2 steam locomotive designed for heavy freight. A total of 33 were...
A Garratt locomotive is a type of steam locomotive invented by British engineer Herbert William Garratt that is articulated into three parts. Its boiler...
Garratt is a 4-6-2+2-6-4. For Garratt locomotives, the plus sign is used even when there are no intermediate unpowered wheels, e.g. the LMSGarratt 2-6-0+0-6-2...
used on steam locomotives such as the Victorian Railways A2 class, the LMSGarratt, the LSWR 415 class, and the GCR Class 1.[dubious – discuss] A large...
Class U1 Garratt was also tried out unsuccessfully in 1949–1950 and again in 1955. On one occasion it was banking a train hauled by LMSGarratt No. 47972...
425,000 miles (684,000 km) during its 30 years. LMSGarratt, a contemporary class of British Garratt locomotives Willie Yeadon, Yeadon's Register of LNER...
Railway (LMS) Stanier Class 8F is a class of steam locomotives designed for hauling heavy freight. 852 were built between 1935 and 1946 (not all to LMS order)...
Publications Official Drawings of LMS Wagons Vol 2 R J Essery 1998 B 1-874103-33-X Wild Swan Publications LMS & LNER Garratts R J Essery & G Toms 1998 B 0-906867-93-2...
and WD 2-8-0s plus the ubiquitous Fowler 4F's, but ex LNWR 0-8-0s and LMSGarratts were not unknown. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations...
1893. With this was built a large marshalling yard and, in later years, LMSGarratts would be seen with their massive trains of coal from Toton in the Nottinghamshire...
that two 0-6-0 locomotives were usually required; from 1927, special LMSGarratt locomotives were built for this traffic, one of which could handle a...
numerous class at this point was, if Midland and LMS classes are combined, the 4F (192 MR, 5 S&DJR, 575 LMS), and the second (or without combination) the...
Prices of unmade kits for the rarer models, such as the 00 gauge LMS Beyer-Garratt locomotive, can reach as much as £100. Before its demise, the company...
were frustrated. That article said that the Austerity 2-8-0 and the LMS Beyer Garratt were both under development for 1985 but they never appeared from...
1981, p. 45. Hughes 1979, p. 57. Hamilton, Gavin. "Garratt locomotives from other builders". The Garratt Locomotive. Archived from the original on 13 March...
Railways numbered it 60103. LMS 4027 was numbered 44027 by British Railways. Sir lamiel was numbered 30777 by British Railways. LMS 13000 was later numbered...
ISBN 0-906899-91-5. Garratt, Colin, ed. (1996). Great Railway Photographers: Maurice Earley. Newton Harcourt: Milepost 92½. ISBN 1-900193-60-4. Garratt, Colin, ed...
the Garratt were the two most popular. They had a single boiler and two engine units (sets of cylinders and driving wheels): both of the Garratt's engine...
an NBR design LNER Class O6 – LMS Stanier Class 8F – 60 loaned to the LNER 1943–47; 68 purchased 1945–46, sold to LMS 1947 LNER Class O7 – WD Austerity...
Class 14 and Class 28 'Co-Bo' diesel locomotives as well as the LMS 2-6-0+0-6-2 Beyer-Garratt with twin motor design and working coal pusher are available...
gauge Garratt locomotives of East Africa were designed for easy conversion to 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge, though again none ever was. In 1944, the LMS re-gauged...
for the Vale of Rheidol line and have operated on the line ever since. A Garratt locomotive locomotive arrived in 2017 for use on passenger trains and is...
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