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Furness Railway D5 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1913· class of 19 British 0-6-0 locomotives
what is it?
The Furness Railway 1 class 0-6-0 (classified "D5" by Bob Rush) was a class of nineteen 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed by W. F. Pettigrew and built between 1913 and 1920. Four were built by Kitson and Company and 15 by North British Locomotive Company (NBL). All 19 were assigned London, Midland and Scottish Railway numbers but only six survived long enough to be assigned a British Railways number.
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 113 years ago, in 1913.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 44 years (1913–1957).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1913
- in service from
- 1913
- retired
- 1957
- status
- retired
- number built
- 19
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company, Kitson and Company
- designer
- W. F. Pettigrew
- operators
- Furness Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, British Rail, London Midland Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- weight
- 42.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5509656, Wikipedia: Furness Railway D5 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.