West Yorkshire 0-6-0 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class 470 (Marquis) (Locobase 9662)

Data from [], Steamindex's summary of Great Northern locomotive practice. See also George Frederick Bird, The Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway 1847-1910 (London: Locomotive Publishing Company, 1910), p. 44-45.

Bird describes these as "remarkably 'pretty' little six-coupled tank engines ...", which does not properly prepare the modern viewer for his sketch of the pair. A low-slung locomotive had just a spectacle board on the footplate, an ornate steam dome with fluted sides and a safety valve placed over the gap between the first two driving axles, tall slightly flared stack, and long side tanks and a well tank in the rear.

The author explains that the design was "...generally typical of a considerable number

brought out at about the same time by the makers, several of which were employed on Welsh railways, while others went to large ironworks, collieries and similar establishments,

where their handiness and power would prove extremely desirable." So pretty is as pretty does. Five years later they were rebuilt as saddle-tankers.