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Furness Railway 94 class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Kitson and Company· from 1912· class of 4 British 0-6-2T locomotives
what is it?
The Furness Railway 94 class (unofficially classified L4 by Bob Rush), or "Improved Cleator Tanks", were built to haul mineral trains from inland to the blast furnaces on the coast around Workington.
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 114 years ago, in 1912.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.1 m long: about 2 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
- 1912–1914
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Kitson and Company
- designer
- William Frank Pettigrew
- operators
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Furness Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-2T
- length
- 9.1 m
- weight
- 56.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5509658, Wikipedia: Furness Railway 94 class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.