Cork & Bandon 0-6-0 Beyer saddle tank

what is it?

The Cork & Bandon 0-6-0 Beyer saddle tank was a class of five six-coupled locomotives supplied to the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR) (later Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway — CB&SCR) between 1881 and 1894 by Beyer, Peacock & Company. They were, for a short while on introduction, to be the railway's principle motive power.

who runs it

base stats

• weight 35.6 tin working order
• built 5made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

• 🎂First built 145 years ago, in 1881.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
• ⌛Served for 59 years (1881–1940).

steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.

spec sheet

built

1881–1894

in service from

1881

retired

1940

status

retired

number built

5

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

builders

Beyer, Peacock and Company

operators

Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway, Great Southern Railways

top speed

—

power

—

gauge

1,600 mm Irish broad gauge

wheel arrangement

0-6-0ST

weight

35.6 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.