#1368
NSR M Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by NSR Stoke works· from 1907· British steam locomotive class
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- 1. NSR M Class No. 11: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) M Class was a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotive designed by John H. Adams, third son of William Adams. It was designed for suburban passenger work on the Potteries loop lines. They shared components such as a drumhead smokebox which rested on the saddle and an almost identical boiler with the NSR L class.
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 119 years ago, in 1907.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.7 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
- 1907–1920
- retired
- 1939
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- NSR Stoke works
- designer
- John Henry Adams
- operators
- North Staffordshire Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-4
- length
- 10.7 m
- weight
- 56.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q20870420, Wikipedia: NSR M Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.