#1363
Midland Railway 2000 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Derby Works· from 1907· class of 40 British 0-6-4T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MR 2000 class: Midland Railwa official photograph· Public domain
what is it?
The Midland Railway 2000 Class was a class of 40 0-6-4T steam locomotives designed by Richard Deeley. They were known as "flatirons" or "hole-in-the-wall tanks" because of their distinctive shape; their side tanks extended to the front of the smokebox and they had a distinct cut-out in the side tanks to access the motion. They were numbered 2000–2039.
who runs it
base stats
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 119 years ago, in 1907.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.2 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 51 years (1907–1958).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1907
- in service from
- 1907
- retired
- 1958
- status
- retired
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Derby Works
- designer
- Richard Deeley
- operators
- Midland Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-4T
- length
- 12.2 m
- weight
- 73.2 t
- nicknames
- Flatiron
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6842407, Wikipedia: Midland Railway 2000 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.