In its simplest form, the V8 is basically two parallel inline-four engines sharing a common crankshaft. Most banks are set at a right angle (90°) to each other, some at a narrower angle, with 45°, 60°, and 72° most common. 752, rebuilt from Class 25 as a saddle tank by Aspinall after 1891, was also bought for preservation and was based at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway alongside 957, until being moved to the East Lancashire Railway in Bury for complete overhaul.A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder V configuration engine with the cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two sets (or banks) of four, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft. After a couple of years on display, overhaul started in July 2016.Ī sister locomotive, L&YR Class 23 no. Its boiler certificate expired in early 2013. It was out of service from 1975 but was returned to steam in 2001 in its BR guise as 52044 before being painted in its L&YR guise as 957 a few years later. It starred in the film The Railway Children as the Green Dragon. The last engine, BR 52044 (L&YR 957, LMS 12044) was bought for preservation in 1959 and has been based at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway since 1965.

Withdrawals began in 1930 but 23 locomotives survived into British Railways ownership in 1948. In 1948, the surviving locomotives (23) passed to British Railways (BR), which numbered them 52016-52064 (with gaps). The LMS gave them the power classification 2F. The locomotives passed briefly to the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1922 and then to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923.

Of these, 230 were later converted to saddle tanks by John Aspinall, to become L&YR Class 23.

They were introduced to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1876 by new locomotive superintendent William Barton Wright and 280 were built in total. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 25 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive. 957 on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in 2004 wearing L&YR lined black livery.Ĥ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gaugeĢ30 converted to L&YR Class 23 (one of the conversions of which is preserved), one preserved, remainder scrapped

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