Great Northern 0-6-4 Locomotives in Ireland

Class RT (Locobase 8029)

Data from "Great Northern Railway", The Locomotive Magazine, Volume XVI, No 212 (15 April 1910) W T Scott's article in the Railway Preservation Society's 5-Foot 3 journal, January 1968, reproduced on the web at [] (accessed 23 December 2006). Works numbers were 5093-5094 in 1908 and 5531-5532 in 1911.

This quartet was essentially an 0-6-0T with a much larger than usual fuel bunker and water tanks. Scott describes some of the features of these dockside shunters:"In numbers 22 and 23 the leading and trailing horns were in two halves. All four engines had 1 1/4" play for the leading axle and a swivel bushing in the front half of the coupling rods. These features were of course intended for dock shunting. The cylinders were inclined at 1 in 8 and ordinary short travel slide valves were fitted. Spring links were non-adjustable on the driving axles but adjustable on the bogies."

Apparently never superheated, the class carried on until the early 1960s.