Hull & Barnsley 0-6-0 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class 13 (Locobase 10575)

Data from "Rebuilt Locomotives, Hull & Barnsley Railway" The Locomotive Magazine, Vol XII (15 August 1906), p.137. Works numbers were 2489-2508

The road numbers on these six-coupled goods locomotives show that this order must have been part of the original motive-power array for this small transfer railway. The works numbers indicate that these went into production at Beyer, Peacock immediately after they completed the passenger engines shown in Locobase 10573. William Kirtley, then the H & B's consulting locomotive superintendent designed these serviceable engines and placed his usual dome and stack on them.

All twenty were rebuilt along the lines described for the passenger engines in Locobase 10574, including provision of a firebox with 100 sq ft of heating surface, although their shorter tubes left them with a total heating surface of 1,027 sq ft. Ten were modified in 1902 with the 60" diameter, 170-psi boilers used in the passenger engines, but again the shorter frame meant shorter tubes and a heating surface of 1,080 sq ft.

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Class B / J23 (Locobase 7540)

Data from Richard Marsden's online LNER Encyclopedia ([], last accessed 10 June 2006) and Mike Parkes' LNER classes website [], accessed 5 March 2006.

This 6-coupled goods engine was Matthew Stirling's answer to the need for a standard freight engine on the H & B. Kitson & Company, Vulcan Foundry, and Yorkshire Engine all supplied batches over a 19-year period. Of those, the first half (27) came with 51"-diameter boilers. The next 6 had 57"-diameter boilers, and the last 19 went to 60" in diameter. All of the earlier locomotives were rebuilt in 1905-1921.

Marsden comments: "As demonstrated by their initially slow introduction followed by a significant build-up in numbers, the J23s were a popular locomotive on the H&BR. Their performance was much better than the earlier Beyer, Peacock 0-6-0s on the mineral traffic for which they were designed."

He also weaves in some context by noting what a blow to Hull's coal traffic levels the General Strike of 1926 proved to be. As a result most of the J23s (as the LNER had by then classed them) were moved to many other depots within the system. For most, the last duty was as haulers of excursion trains.

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Class G3 / J75 (Locobase 10232)

Data from "Six-Coupled Tank Engine, Hull & Barnsley Ry," The Locomotive Magazine, Vol VII (July 1902), p. 113.

Matthew Stirling designed these shunters (switchers) and contracted for 6 of them to be delivered by Yorkshire Engine in 1902. A later purchase of 10 from Kitson & Company completed the class in 1908. They had domeless boilers and a rounded cab.

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Class LS/J28 (Locobase 20173)

Data from "New Locomotives on the Hull and Barnsley, Furness, and Great Northern of Ireland Railways", Railway Magazine, Volume 37, p. 197. See also Richard Marsden, "The M.Stirling J28 (H&BR Class L,L1,LS) 0-6-0 Locomotives" on his LNER Encyclopedia website at [], last accessed 8 April 2017; and "Superheater Goods Locomotive-Hull & Barnsley Ry.", Locomotive Magazine, Volume XXI [21] (14 August 1915), p. 172.

Matthew Stirling, locomotive superintendent of the H & B, had ordered ten saturated-boiler L1s when he ordered this quintet with superheaters but retaining his domeless boiler. RM's report said the the requirements of handling heavy goods traffic "including a good deal of shunting and intermediate work" led to a design so that steam always had access to the superheater through a regulator mounted on the superheated steam side of the header. The flues were raked "slightly inclined to the vertical" to allow any element to be removed without disturbing the other 17. Note the relative long adhesion wheelbase for an 0-6-0.

In 1928, the LNER installed 58B domed boilers on all of the L-series engines; the LS with the new boiler were redesignated J28/3. Marsden says these were "preferred for passenger work, especially when they were used to assist with the heavy seaside traffic to Hornsea and Withernsea."

The last of the class was retired in 1938.