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BACKGROUND Post-Nationalisation British Rail ways completed construction of the 'West Country' and 'Merchant Navy' locomotive designs, but did not build any further orders. It abandoned the 'Leader' class experiments, and Bulleid left the UK to carry forward his unusual locomotive designs in Ireland. Withdrawal Withdrawal of ex-SR locomotives happened mainly towards the end of steam on the Southern Region (in 1967), the pre-Grouping designs having gone before then as electrification spread across the region. LOCOMOTIVES OF SR DESIGN With the heavy emphasis on electrification for the London Suburban area and the Brighton main line there was little need for new steam locomtovie designs. The main steam tasks were boat trains (Dover, Folkestone and Newhaven), West of England and Kent services and freight. The designers had some interesting constraints. Due to the hangover from SE&CR days most of the lines in Kent were of fairly light construction and would not take the weight of a modern express locomotive until well into the 1930s. Hence the extensive rebuilding (and new construction) of 4-4-0 designs at a time when other lines were busily building pacifics or heavy 4-6-0s. The ex-SER lines also had the problem of the narrow Bo-Peep Tunnel on the Hastings line, requiring locomotive and rolling stock rather narrower than permitted elsewhere. This problem persisted into BR days until eventually the tunnel was Single Track ed, giving clearance for normal stock. Services for west of Southampton and Salisbury had a different set of problems as neither the Southern nor its constituents installed Water Trough s, thus leading to large Tender s with large water capacity. New designs were: Richard E. L. Maunsell (1923–1937)
Maunsell also rebuilt, modified or continued the new construction of earlier classes
O. V. S. Bulleid (1937–1949)
Bulleid was also responsible for the mechanical part of the three electric locomotives (CC1-CC3, later British Railways Class 70 ) built at Ashford Works in 1941 (CC1) and 1948 (CC2-CC3). The electrical part was the responsibility of the SR Chief Electrical Engineer, Raworth. Bullied was also responsible for the design of a 500hp 0-6-0 diesel mechanical shunter powered by a Davey Paxman power unit and built at Ashford Works . This was not introduced until 1950 as BR number 11001 LOCOMOTIVES OF CONSTITUENT COMPANIES London And South Western Railway ''See also North Devon Railway Joseph Hamilton Beattie (1850–1871)
William George Beattie (1871–1878)
William Adams (1878–1895)
Dugald Drummond (1895–1912)
Robert W. Urie (1912–1922)
South Eastern And Chatham Railway H. S. Wainwright (1899–1913)
R.E.L.Maunsell (1913–1922)
London, Brighton And South Coast Railway William Stroudley (1870–1889)
R. J. Billinton (1890–1904)
D. Earle Marsh (1905–1911)
L. B. Billinton (1911–1922)
Diesel Locomotives The Southern Railway also built three diesel prototypes numbered 10201 To 10203 upon which the English Electric Type Four was heavily based. |
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