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Gresley B17 Sandringham/Footballer class

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  1. neildimmer

    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a new collection featuring the Gresley B17, "Sandringham" / "Footballer" class

    By 1926, the former GER B12 class locomotives were no longer able to cope with the heaviest express passenger trains on the Great Eastern Main Line between London and Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich. Yet Gresley was unable to use his larger classes due to severe weight restrictions on the line. The requirement for a lightweight yet powerful 4-6-0 proved to be difficult to achieve.
    Design
    After several unsuccessful attempts by Doncaster Works to satisfy Gresley's specification, the contract for the detailed design and building of the class was given to the North British Locomotive Company in 1927. They used several features from a batch of A1 Pacifics they had built in 1924. The cab, cylinders, and motion had all been copied directly or slightly modified. Most of the boiler design was taken from the LNER Class K3 2-6-0 and LNER Class O2 2-8-0 designs. Darlington Works provided drawings for the bogies, and Stratford Works designs for the GE-type 3,700-imperial-gallon (17,000 l; 4,400 US gal), 4-long-ton (4.1 t) tender.
    Due to weight restrictions it proved to be impossible for all three cylinders to drive the middle coupled axle, the design used divided drive with the middle cylinder driving the leading axle and was positioned forward above the front bogie. The LNER also ordered some modifications, including an increase in cylinder size from 17 in (432 mm) to 17 1⁄2 in (444 mm), and a lengthening of the firebox by 5 in (127.0 mm) with longer frames, and lighter springs. The design continued to prove problematic and the LNER eventually cancelled a penalty clause in the original contract. The first locomotive, No. 2802 Walsingham was delivered 30 November 1928, thirteen weeks late.
    Construction
    Ten locomotives were built by the North British Locomotive Company (works nos. 23803-12) during November and December, which were allocated the running numbers 2800-9. Five further orders were placed with Darlington Works between December 1928 and March 1935 for a further fifty-two locomotives to be delivered between August 1930 and June 1936. A final batch of eleven were ordered from Robert Stephenson and Company in February 1936 (works nos. 4124-34) for delivery between January and July 1937; resulting in a total of 73 B17s built.
    The first ten by the North British Locomotive Company were designated B17, later B17/1. The second and third batches had boilers supplied by Armstrong Whitworth and different springing and became B17/2. The next two batches had different springing and were designated B17/3. However, as the locomotives passed through the works the original springs were replaced by those of the later design and in 1937 the three sub-classes were merged into B17/1. The final Darlington batch introduced in 1936, and those built by Robert Stephenson and Company had 4,200-imperial-gallon (19,000 l; 5,000 US gal), 7.5-long-ton (7.6 t) tenders and were intended for use in the North Eastern area of the LNER: these were designated B17/4.
    In September 1937 two locomotives (Nos. 2859 Norwich City and 2870 Tottenham Hotspur) were streamlined in the manner of the LNER Class A4s, renamed East Anglian and City of London and intended for use on the East Anglian train. They were designated B17/5. However, the streamlining was cladding for publicity purposes only and had little effect on the overall speed of the locomotive. By 1951 both engines had been stripped of the streamlining altogether.


    2870 City of London & 2859 East Anglian the 2 streamlined Gresley B17-5 Sandringham Class 4-6-0s
    https://tinyurl.com/dsmd2apx
    2859 East Anglian
    https://tinyurl.com/3mfzyc9x
    2870 City of London
    https://tinyurl.com/yhcj4wx5

    Neil.
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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a new collection featuring the Gresley B17, "Sandringham" / "Footballer" class
    This collection features the Sandringham locos in the LNER era
    Including this photo of
    2802 Walsingham Eastfield 28th November 1928. First loco of this batch built by The North British Locomotive Co (NBL), Nameplate fitted in wrong position
    https://tinyurl.com/mywmwns2
    &
    2800 Sandringham unknown display location
    https://tinyurl.com/7exhyt3f
    also this one of a renamed loco
    2858 The Essex Regiment (previously Newcastle United) Gresley B17 Sandringham Class 4-6-0s
    https://tinyurl.com/9x4nmk8w
    Full collection starts here with
    2801 Holkham at Handsworth with a Continental Boat Express 15th June 1935
    https://tinyurl.com/nnvvjaxt

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  3. neildimmer

    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a new collection featuring the B17 Sandringham/Footballer class
    This collection features the ‘Footballers’ in the LNER era
    Including this one of my local club Huddersfield Town
    2853 Huddersfield Town undergoing repairs unknown works or date
    https://tinyurl.com/tp3ubk8k
    Full collection starts here with
    1655 Middlesbrough at Stratford c1947
    https://tinyurl.com/5bujedzz

    Neil.
     

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