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S&DJR Fox, Walker 0-6-0ST
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Peckett and Sons· from 1874· class of 9 British 0-6-0ST locomotives
what is it?
The S&DJR Fox, Walker 0-6-0ST was a class of nine 0-6-0ST locomotives built by Fox, Walker and Company for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway between 1874 and 1876 for banking duties on the Bath Extension. The first three were ordered in February 1874 at £2,350 each + part-exchange of four the SDJR's 2-4-0 locomotives (numbers 1, 3, 4 and 5). A further two more were ordered in August 1874 at £3,200 each.
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 152 years ago, in 1874.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 61 years (1874–1935).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1874–1876
- in service from
- 1874
- retired
- 1935
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Peckett and Sons, Fox, Walker and Company
- operators
- Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- weight
- 43.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7386973, Wikipedia: S&DJR Fox, Walker 0-6-0ST (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.