London & South Western 0-4-2 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class Jubilee (Locobase 2242)

Data from E L Ahrons, The British Railway Locomotive, 1825-1925 (London: Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927); and from "The History of the London & South Western Ry. Locomotives", The Locomotive Magazine, Volume XIV [14] (15 July 1908), pp. 118-119.

Designed by Adams and introduced in the 50th year of Queen Victoria's reign, hence the name. Nine Elms built 50 and Neilson produced 40 for mixed-traffic work. LM reports that they were used for heavy excursion and troop special services, Central and North Devon passenger trains, and fast goods services from London to the West of England, Southampton, and Weymouth.

Glover (1967) notes the use of inside cylinders, atypical of South Western practice, stemmed from the wheel arrangement in which outside cylinders would have set up too much of a boxing motion. Ahrons notes that the steam chests were under the cylinders in the first 60, inside (toward the centerline) in later engines. Some of the engines had 218 tubes and a total heating surface of 1,248 sq ft (115.94 sq m).