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Midland Railway Paget locomotive
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Midland Railway Workshops· from 1908· experimental British eight-cylinder 2-6-2 locomotive
what is it?
The Midland Railway's Paget locomotive, No. 2299, was an experimental steam locomotive constructed at its Derby Works in 1908 to the design of the General Superintendent Cecil Paget (though Richard Deeley was Locomotive Superintendent at the time). As the Midland shrouded the locomotive in secrecy, there is only one known official photograph, which was not released until after The Grouping of 1923.
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 118 years ago, in 1908.
- Served for 10 years (1908–1918).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1908
- in service from
- 1908
- retired
- 1918
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Midland Railway, Derby Works
- designer
- Cecil Walter Paget
- operators
- Midland Railway
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6842422, Wikipedia: Midland Railway Paget locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.