Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramway 0-4-2 Locomotives in Great_Britain
Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media
Class Chichester (Locobase 10698)
Data from "The Selsey Tramway", The Locomotive Magazine, Vol XV - 2 parts: 15 February 1909, pp. 34-35 and 15 March 1909, pp. 54-55. Boiler pressure is an estimate.
The Selsey Peninsula offered promise as a seaside resort "of the quieter kind", says the author of the report on the Selsey Tramway and its locomotives. It opened on 27 August 1897and ran 7 1/2 miles from Chichester on the London, Brighton & South Coast to Selsey Town. According to the Colonel H F Stephens website ([
], last accessed 29 July 2009), "...the railway was laterly the most ramshackle of all Stephens lines, and suffered greatly from road competition after the Great War." Bankruptcy followed in the 1930s and the railway soon closed in 1935.
This tank engine started out in 1847 as a six-coupled tank with a haystack firebox. Worked for a while by the Great Western Railway and then for a long time by a collier near Merthyr, it was overhauled and updated by Peckett for use in constructing the Selsey Tramway. Not long after its service entry on the Selsey, Avonside were given the task of reconfiguring the engine as a 4-coupled with radial trailing axle.
It was scrapped in 1913.
| Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media | |
|---|---|
| Class | Chichester |
| Locobase ID | 10698 |
| Railroad | Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramway |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Whyte | 0-4-2ST |
| Number in Class | 1 |
| Road Numbers | |
| Gauge | Std |
| Number Built | 1 |
| Builder | Avonside |
| Year | 1898 |
| Valve Gear | Stephenson |
| Locomotive Length and Weight | |
| Driver Wheelbase (ft / m) | |
| Engine Wheelbase (ft / m) | |
| Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase | |
| Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m) | |
| Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg) | |
| Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg) | |
| Engine Weight (lbs / kg) | 44,800 / 20,321 |
| Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg) | |
| Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML) | |
| Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT) | |
| Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m) | |
| Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort | |
| Driver Diameter (in / mm) | 42 / 1067 |
| Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa) | 150 / 1030 |
| High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm) | 11" x 18" / 279x457 |
| Tractive Effort (lbs / kg) | 6612 / 2999.16 |
| Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) | |
| Heating Ability | |
| Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flues (number - dia) (in / mm) | |
| Flue/Tube length (ft / m) | |
| Firebox Area (sq ft / m2) | 40 / 3.72 |
| Grate Area (sq ft / m2) | |
| Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 450 / 41.82 |
| Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2) | |
| Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2) | 450 / 41.82 |
| Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume | 227.29 |
| Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information) | |
| Robert LeMassena's Power Computation | |
| Same as above plus superheater percentage | |
| Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area | 6000 |
| Power L1 | 3447 |
| Power MT | |