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The British Railways class 9F 2-10-0 heavy goods engines were
not really Southern engines but just about squeeze into our website as they
performed sterling work on the Somerset &
Dorset line, which took them to Bournemouth, and due to a brief allocation
of five locomotives to Eastleigh in 1961-3. They were, without a shadow of a
doubt, the most successful of the British Railways Standard designs.
The 9F class, the first of which entered service in 1954, consisted of 251 locomotives by the time the last was built. The final member of the class, N°92220, was the 999th BR Standard locomotive, and also the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways. Emerging from Swindon works on 18th March 1960, this locomotive was turned out in fully lined passenger livery, given a copper capped chimney and the name Evening Star to commemorate the end of BR steam building. 92220 had a mixed career, starting in a blaze of glory working crack express trains, she was soon moved to the freight duties the class was designed for, plus passenger trips to Bournemouth when working on the S&D line in the summers of 1962 and 1963, and at least one visit to Yeovil Town shed during 1964. She then, following an accident, became one of the first of the class to be withdrawn when only five years old, though already earmarked for preservation as part of the National Collection. She is still around today and, as can be seen below, has re-visited Southern metals since preservation. Designed by R A Riddles, with a lot of influence from the wartime WD 2-10-0s, and built in eleven batches, the construction was shared between British Railways' Crewe and Swindon works. There were several variations between class members, for example the fitting of double chimneys to some, but by far the strangest were the Franco-Crosti boilered examples which had a double barrelled boiler, emitting their exhaust from a chimney half way along the right hand side of the boiler. They also had a "normal" chimney on the top of the smokebox which was only used when lighting up. The second, smaller, boiler was between the frames and was used to preheat the feed water, though these were later removed. There were just ten of these Franco-Crostis, none of which was ever shedded on the Southern. |
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Introduced: Driving Wheel: Pony Wheel: Length: Total Weight: Cylinders (2): Boiler Pressure: Tractive Effort: Coal capacity: Water: Power Classification: |
1954 5 ft 0 ins 3 ft 2 ins 66 ft 2 ins Loco: 86 tons 14 cwt BR1C Tender: 53 tons 10 cwt BR1F Tender: 55 tons 10 cwt BR1G Tender: 52 tons 10 cwt 20 in x 28 in 250 lb sq in 39,667 lb BR1C Tender: 9 tons BR1F/G Tender: 7 tons BR1C Tender: 4,725 gals BR1F Tender: 5,625 gals BR1G Tender: 5,000 gals 9-F |
9Fs known to have worked on the Southern (listed in the order they were built) |
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N° | Built | At Bath for S&D | To Eastleigh | To Feltham | Transferred away |
92000 | Jan 1954 | Jun-Sep 1961 | - | - | - |
92001 | Jan 1954 | Jun-Oct 1961 & Jun-Sep 1962 | - | - | - |
92006 | Feb 1954 | Jun-Sep 1960 & Jun-Sep 1961 | - | - | - |
92224 | Jun 1958 | Aug-Sep 1963 | - | - | - |
92231 | Aug 1958 | - | 1961 | Jun 1963 | Sep 1963 |
92233 | Aug 1958 | Jun-Sep 1962 | - | - | - |
92239 | Sep 1958 | - | 1961 | Jun 1963 | Sep 1963 |
92245 | Nov 1958 | Jun-Sep 1962 | - | - | - |
92203 | Apr 1959 | Jun-Sep 1960 | - | - | - |
92204 | Apr 1959 | Jun-Sep 1960 | - | - | - |
92205 | May 1959 | Jun-Sep 1960 | 1961 | Jun 1963 | Sep 1963 |
92206 | May 1959 | Jun-Sep 1960 | 1961 | Jun 1963 | Sep 1963 |
92210 | Aug 1959 | Jun-Jul 1961 | - | - | - |
92211 | Sep 1959 | - | 1961 | Jun 1963 | Sep 1963 |
92212 | Sep 1959 | Jun 1961 - Jun 1962 | - | - | - |
92217 | Dec 1959 | - | - | Visited? Nov 1963 | - |
92220 | Mar 1960 | Jul-Sep 1961 & Aug-Oct 1963 | - | - | - |
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