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Highland Railway Cumming 4-4-0 Class

Highland Railway Cumming 4-4-0 Class

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The Highland Railway Cumming 4-4-0 class was a pair of 4-4-0 steam locomotives designed by Christopher Cumming, the Locomotive Superintendent of the Highland Railway

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Dimensions

They had 20-by-26-inch (510 mm × 660 mm) outside cylinders with Walschaerts valve gear, 6 ft 3 in (1.905 m) driving wheels and a boiler pressed to 175 lbf/in2 (1.21 MPa). Weight was a half-hundredweight short of 56 long tons (125,400 lb or 56.9 t).

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Transfer to LMS

Both survived into London, Midland and Scottish Railway ownership in 1923, but neither lasted until nationalisation, as both were withdrawn and scrapped as non-standard engines in the mid-1930s. The LMS had classed them as 3P.

References

    • Baxter, Bertram (1984). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 4: Scottish and remaining English Companies in the LMS Group. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company.
    • Casserley, H. C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1974) [1966]. Locomotives at the Grouping 3: London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan. p. 146. ISBN 0-7110-0554-0.
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