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L&YR Class 5
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Horwich Works· from 1889· class of 310 British 2-4-2T locomotives
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 1008 Tyseley Locomotive Works - 8522189560: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. 1008 Tyseley Locomotive Works: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Different Light Event 2013 (10583173713): Thomas's Pics· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Great Hall - National Railway Museum, York (36283858015): Glen Bowman from Newcastle, England· CC BY 2.0
- 5. Hugh llewelyn 1008 (6684209005): Hugh Llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1008 at the National Railway Museum - August 2018: nzsteam· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 5 were 2-4-2T steam locomotives designed by Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) John Aspinall and introduced from 1889 for local passenger work. Later batches included progressive modifications such as extended coal bunkers and Belpaire fireboxes. The final batch built from 1911 to 1914 under George Hughes incorporating superheated boilers gave increased tractive effort, others were also rebuilt to this standard.
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 137 years ago, in 1889.
- 11.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1889–1911
- number built
- 310
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Horwich Works
- designer
- J. A. F. Aspinall
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-2
- length
- 11.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6455474, Wikipedia: L&YR Class 5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.