Early Days ⁽⁷⁾

Mr. J. Ramsbottom

1858 — DX Goods ⁽³⁾
1863 — 4ft Shunter ⁽³⁾
1870 — Special Tank ⁽²⁾

Mr. F.W. Webb

1873 — Coal Engine ⁽⁴⁾
1880 — 18in Goods ⁽⁵⁾
1881 — Special DX ⁽²⁾
1881 — Coal Tanks ⁽²⁾
1893 — ‘A’ class ⁽²⁾
1894 — Crane Tank ⁽²⁾
1896 — Dock Tank ⁽²⁾
1901 — ‘B’ class ⁽²⁾
1903 — 1400 Class ⁽²⁾

Mr. G. Whale

1904 — ‘C’ class ⁽³⁾
1904 — ‘E’ class ⁽³⁾
1906 — ‘D’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘F’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘G’ class ⁽¹⁾
1912 — ‘G1’ class ⁽⁵⁾
1906 — 19in Goods ⁽³⁾

Mr. C.J. Bowen Cooke

1911 — 1185 class ⁽²⁾

Capt. H.P.M. Beames

1923 — 380 class ⁽²⁾

Ex GCR

1919 — ‘MM’ class ⁽²⁾

No.1140 17in ‘Coal Engine’ 0-6-0

Click on picture for bigger image.   LNWRS Photo Ref 1695

Mr. Francis W. Webb  (extreme left) standing beside his team that have built a 17in ‘Coal Engine’  at Crewe  in 25½ hours in February 1878. The running number was actually 1140 – 2153 is the Crewe Works number. Unfortunately Altoona Works (USA) shortly cut this record to 16¼ hours. Then the Great Eastern Railway built a class Y14 0-6-0 and tender at Stratford in only 9 hours 47 minuets, in December 1891 — but this was no second-rate job: the engine completed 36,000 miles before painting and lasted 43 years in service!

A future CME is also in the picture. C.J. Bowen Cooke  was an apprentice at the time and he is the tall lad standing on the left beside the buffer plank.

17in Coal Engine Locomotive Class