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BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T

photograph: Mike Morant collection

N°82015 at Eastleigh during 1963.
Designed at Swindon for light passenger duties with what is virtually a GWR "N°2" Boiler, the class 3MT tank was for the most part a new engine, though influenced by late LMS design trends. They were useful engines, coming halfway between the 4MT tender and 2MT tank engines for power and axle loading. First introduced to traffic during April 1952, they were the fifth of the British Railways Standard locomotive designs. They were mainly based on the South Wales lines of the Western Region though the Southern Region had a number and some examples were based as far away as Darlington and Wrexham.
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  • 82029
    Waterloo
    N°82029, released from the platform at Waterloo, runs out light engine ready for the next duty.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.
  • 82029
    Waterloo
    Here N°82029 is waiting by the Signalbox for the road to set back into the station.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.
  • 82029
    Waterloo
    N°82029 buffering up to the empty stock in the platform road.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.
  • 8202916
    Queen's Road
    Having delivered empty stock from Waterloo to Clapham Junction, N°82016 and Standard Class 4 2-6-0 N°76066 are seen passing Queen's Road Battersea on the up Richmond line heading back towards Waterloo, no doubt for another empty stock working, on 29th August 1964.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.
  • 82028
    Wimborne
    N°82028 is seen at Wimborne heading a two-coach train from Brockenhurst to Bournemouth West. This service had been the preserve of push and pull workings using M7 0-4-4Ts for many years and N°82028 is hauling a former push and pull Maunsell set. Note the lampposts and also the raised lettering on the "Wimborne" Running-In board. Wimborne had an unusually tall signalbox which is just visible in the smoke immediately behind the chimney of the locomotive.
    Photograph by Keith Harwood.
  • 82005
    Clapham Jn
    N°82005 brings MkI set 525 into Clapham Junction.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.
  • 82019
    Clapham Jn
    N°82019 on a goods working, also at Clapham Junction.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.
  • 82029
    Clapham Jn
    A much dirtier, N°82029 is seen on another goods working at Clapham Common, November 1966. In the background is a 2-Hap in rail blue, sporting the double arrow motif.
    Photograph by Ray Soper.

Technical Details

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Route Availability: 		April 1952
5 ft 3 ins
3 ft
40 ft 10½ ins
74 tons 1 cwt
1,500 gals
17½ in x 26 in
200 lb sq in
21,490 lb
3 tons
3MT
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