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L&YR Class 3
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Unknown builder· from 1891· class of 40 British 4-4-0 locomotives
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- 1. British Library digitised image from page 215 of "The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, etc": British Library· No restrictions
what is it?
The L&YR Class 3 was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway introduced in 1891 with forty being built. George Hughes rebuilt six locomotives with superheaters between 1908 and 1909, they were later designated L&YR Class 4. All passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the grouping in 1923 but were withdrawn by 1930.
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 135 years ago, in 1891.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1891–1894
- retired
- 1930
- status
- retired
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Unknown builder
- designer
- John Aspinall
- operators
- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6455465, Wikipedia: L&YR Class 3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.