LMS Class 7F 0-8-0

LMS 7F 0-8-0

49592 at Aintree, June 1948.

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Builder	LMS Crewe Works
Build date	1929–1932
Total produced	175

Specifications
Configuration	0-8-0
UIC class	D h2
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)
Driver dia.	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)
Wheelbase	Loco: 18 ft 3 in (5.56 m)
Length	56 ft 1 in (17.09 m)
Loco weight	60.75 long tons (61.72 t; 68.04 short tons)
Tender weight	41.20 long tons (41.86 t; 46.14 short tons)
Total weight	101.95 long tons (103.59 t; 114.18 short tons)
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	4 long tons (4.1 t; 4.5 short tons)
Water cap	3,500 imp gal (16,000 l; 4,200 US gal)
Firebox: • Firegrate area	23.5 sq ft (2.18 m²)
Boiler	LMS type G7¾S
Boiler pressure	200 lbf/in² (1.38 MPa)
Heating surface: • Tubes and flues	1,434 sq ft (133.2 m²) later 1,402 sq ft (130.3 m²)
• Firebox	150 sq ft (14 m²)
Superheater:
• Heating area	353 sq ft (32.8 m²) to 338 sq ft (31.4 m²)
Cylinders	Two
Cylinder size	19 ¹⁄₂ in × 26 in (495 mm × 660 mm)
Valve gear	Walschaerts, piston valves

Performance figures
Tractive effort	29,745 lbf (132.31 kN)

Career
Power class	7F
Numbers	LMS: 9500–9674 BR: 49500–49674
Nicknames	Baby Austins Austin Sevens
Withdrawn	1949–1962
Disposition	All scrapped

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Fowler Class 7F was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. They were a Midlandised version of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G2 and Class G2A 0-8-0s. They were also classified as Class G3 under the former LNWR system. The class were sometimes known as Baby Austins, or Austin 7s, after a motor car that was becoming popular at the time.

Overview

It featured a Belpaire firebox and increased boiler pressure over its predecessor but had the same power rating of 7F. Unfortunately the design had been done at the old Midlands Railway's Derby Works and the drawing office staff insisted on using Midland practice. Among other things this meant that the axle bearings were too small for the loads they had to carry. E.S Cox, writing in a series of articles in Trains Illustrated c. 1957, suggests that they had a sufficiently modern and effective front end that, for steady slogging, some drivers preferred them to an LMS Stanier Class 8F. However, this also meant that, with bearings comparable to an LMS Fowler Class 4F and already inadequate for the lower powered engine, the bearings broke up rapidly.

Numbering

Number		Lot Number	Date built	Crewe Works serial Nos.
LMS	BR	Lot Number	Date built	Crewe Works serial Nos.
9500–99	49500–99	57	1929	6872–5971
9600–02	49600–02	71	1930	6047–49
9603–19	49603–19	71	1931	6050–66
9620–32	49620–32	81	1931	1–13
9633	49633	81	1932	14
9634–35	49634–35	81	1931	15–16
9636–59	49636–59	81	1932	17–40
9660–74	49660–74	84	1932	41–55

Equipment

Numbers 9672–74 were fitted with ACFI feedwater heaters when built but these were removed during the Second World War. After the war, five were briefly converted to oil burning.

British Railways

They all survived to pass into British Railways ownership but 122 had been withdrawn by the end of 1951; fifty were withdrawn without receiving their BR number. They had a fairly short life and were all withdrawn between 1949 and 1962, some time before the G2s which lasted until 1964.

Accidents and incidents

On 13 March 1935, a milk train was in a rear-end collision with an express freight train at King's Langley, Hertfordshire due to a signalman's error. Another freight train collided with the wreckage. Locomotive No. 9598 was hauling a coal train that ran into the wreckage. One person was killed.^[1]
On 14 May 1948, a locomotive of the class was hauling a freight train that ran away and was in collision with an empty stock train at Battyeford, Yorkshire.^[2]

Withdrawal

Table of withdrawals
Year	Quantity in service at start of year	Quantity withdrawn	Locomotive numbers
1949	175	61	9504/07/12/17/18/21/22/27/28/30/33/34/42/46/49/50/59/65/75/73/76/77/84/97/99, 9601/04/06/13/14/16/26/29/32/33/39/42/44/45/46/52/54/56/58/69/70, 49513/25/26/39/51/52/64/81/84, 49607/11/22/30/43/47.
1950	114	37	9514/29, 9619/21, 49500/01/16/19/20/31/35/37/41/43/53/56/61/67/69/74/75/79/83/96, 49605/09/15/28/34/35/36/41/49/51/53/55/65.
1951	77	24	49502/10/23/40/58/68/71/80/85/87/89/90/93/94/95, 49610/17/23/25/31/50/60/63/73.
1952	53	6	49506/48/63/91, 49661/71.
1953	47	4	49524, 49600/08/12.
1954	43	2	49503, 49602.
1955	41	3	49554/57/70.
1956	38	6	49532/52, 49603/20/38/66.
1957	32	12	49536/38/45/47/55/60/66, 49648/57/59/64/72.
1958	20	0	—
1959	20	11	49509/11/15/78/82/86/92/98, 49640/62/67.
1960	9	4	49505/44, 49624/74.
1961	5	4	49618/27/37/68.
1962	1	1	49508.

References

↑ Hall, Stanley (1990). The Railway Detectives. London: Ian Allan. p. 99. ISBN 0 7110 1929 0.
↑ Earnshaw, Alan (1990). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 6. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 28. ISBN 0-906899-37-0.

Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, summer 1961 edition, part 3, page 52
Rowledge, J.W.P. (1975). Engines of the LMS built 1923–51. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0-902888-59-5.

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