#1001
L&YR Class 30
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Unknown builder· from 1900· JAF Aspinal’s class of 60 British 0-8-0 locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. LYR 0-8-0 Class 30 1903: British Transport Commission· Public domain
- 2. LYR 0-8-0 Class 30 Hoy: British Transport Commission· Public domain
what is it?
The L&YR Class 30 was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The class was designed by John Aspinall and introduced in 1900.
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 126 years ago, in 1900.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1900–1908
- retired
- 1950
- status
- retired
- number built
- 60
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Unknown builder
- designer
- Aspinall
- operators
- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, British Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- nicknames
- Sea Pigs
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6455466, Wikipedia: L&YR Class 30 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.