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BR ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1943· class of 25 ex-British War Department locomotives
what is it?
The British Railways (BR) ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0 Class was a class of 25 2-10-0 steam locomotives of the WD Austerity 2-10-0 type purchased in 1948 from the War Department.
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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Weighs about as much as 13 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.4 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 14 years (1948–1962).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1943–1945
- in service from
- 1948
- retired
- 1962
- status
- retired
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company
- designer
- R. A. Riddles
- operators
- War Department, British Rail, Scottish Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 20.4 m
- weight
- 79.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q4836483, Wikipedia: BR ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.