A FURTHER LOOK AT 0-6-0s

摘要

In the January 2020 issue of The Railway Magazine we surveyed the performance of various 0-6-0 tender locos, from Collett's '2251' class on the Great Western to a 'J19' and 'J39s' on the former Great Eastern. We shall now look at five more classes, still leaving many others unremarked; after all, on Nationalisation in 1948, BR inherited 4,259 0-6-0s, comprising umpteen different types from before the 1923 Grouping. One of those was the impressive-looking former North Eastern Railway stud classified 'J27' by the LNER and used extensively on heavy duty moving coal in Northumberland and County Durham. With crews on mileage bonus payment, they always seemed in a hurry - as did the 'Q6' 0-8-0s - often tender-first, apparently revelling in being thrashed, and forming the centre piece of John Heaton's comprehensive article in the March 2011 issue of The RM.