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The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Small Boiler Class C1 is a class of steam locomotive, the first 4-4-2 or Atlantic type in Great Britain. They were designed by Henry Ivatt in 1897. In total 22 were built between 1898 and 1903 at Doncaster Works.
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The C1 class experienced a high degree of development, resulting in five different cylinder arrangements, and four different superheater arrangements, during their time with the LNER.Hence, the boiler parameters have been listed in a separate table to the main locomotive parameters.The LNER never issued a diagram for the remaining saturated C1s and...
No. 2800 (pre-1946: No. 3251) was withdrawn in July 1947 and was restored to an external GNR condition complete with its original number of 251. This included the replacement of the superheater, piston valve cylinders, Ross pop safety valves, and mechanical lubricators. The replacement slide valve cylinders were taken from No. 2868, and the saturat...
Bachmann produce a ready-to-run model of the C1 for OO gauge (4mm scale). Whitemetal kits are also available from DJH and Nu-Cast.K's Kits have also produced a 4mm scale kit, but this is no longer available. An O gauge (7mm scale) kit is available from ACE Products. A tinplate O gauge model thought to date from the 1930s operates at theBrighton Toy...
Thank you to Mike Morant Collection for the colour illustration of Ivatt C1 No. 1439. Thank you to Malcolm Peirson for the photograph of LNER No. 3277. Thank you to Peter Langsdale for the photograph of C1 No. 251 preserved at the National Railway Museum.
- 170psi
- Stephenson
- 6ft 8in
- Slide
So far as the general dimensions of cylinders, wheels and length are concerned, it was practically identical with the pioneer British “Atlantic,” No. 990, already described and illustrated in this monograph, but it was fitted with a much larger boiler, with a total heating surface of 2,500 sq. ft., and this innovation, which also increased the a...
The first British atlantics (4-4-2 locomotives) were the twenty-two engines built between 1898 and 1903 for the GNR which became the C2 class. All of these were withdrawn between 1935 and 1946.
This was the first Atlantic 4-4-2 locomotive built in Britain, and quickly acquired the nickname of 'Klondike' (or 'Klondyke') after the 1896 Gold Rush in the Klondike region of the Yukon. In June 1900, No. 990 was named Henry Oakley, but the 'Klondike' name stuck and was used for the entire class throughout their existence.
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Small Boiler Class C1 is a class of steam locomotive, the first 4-4-2 or Atlantic type in Great Britain. They were designed by Henry Ivatt in 1897. In total 22 were built between 1898 and 1903 at Doncaster Works.
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