Drummond LSWR 700 Class 0-6-0

The class was originally numbered 687–716 but the year after delivery Nos. 702–716 were renumbered, somewhat haphazardly using numbers vacated by engines that had been withdrawn) by the LSWR between June and August 1898, becoming 306, 308, 309, 315, 317, 325–327, 339, 346, 350, 352, 355, 368, 459 respectively to make way for new T9 4-4-0s. In June 1912, no. 459 was renumbered again, to 316 to make way for a new T14 4-6-0. The locomotives gained the nickname 'Black Motor' early in their career. They were well designed and had few major modifications during the existence of the fleet – the exception being fitted with superheaters from 1919 to 1929, which required the fitting of an extended smokebox. They shared many standard parts with Drummond's other designs (including sharing boilers with the M7 class).
The new engines subsequently had standardised parts, such as the boiler, firebox, cylinders and motion, common with the classes M7, C8 and K10
locomotives. At delivery time they were numbered 687-716, and logically the class should have become known as the '687' class as no. 700 was merely the 14th loco built and delivered. And so things continued unchanged, each locomotive doing solid, unglamorous work, right through WW1.
In 1919, Urie decided to apply superheating to no. 316 (ex-459, ex-716), requiring extended smokebox, extensions to the frames and raising the boiler pitch by 9 inches. The raising of the boiler meant that the cab design and shape required changes, making it seem taller, which was emphasised by the substitution of a rather stark stovepipe chimney. In due course superheating was applied to the remainder of the class by Maunsell after the grouping.
Many of the class were involved in a series of tender exchanges with classes T9, D15, K10 and L11 to enable T9s to work on the ex-SECR lines in the 1920s.
At one point in 1936, the 700 class was reclassified as C class, but this caused confusion with the ex-SECR C class locomotives and the change was discarded.
Soon after the locomotives passed to Southern Railway (SR) ownership, their LSWR numbers were prefixed "E" to denote Eastleigh Works - this was done to distinguish similarly-numbered locomotives from the other constituents of the SR; thus, LSWR no. 687 became SR no. E687. These prefixes were dropped from mid-1931. In the meantime, there had been a proposal (prepared in March 1927) to renumber some classes into continuous blocks: the 700 class were allocated the series E336–9, E369–379 and E686–701 but none were actually renumbered, and the plan was cancelled in December 1927.
The 700s remained intact as a class through SR ownership from 1923 to 1947. The arrival of the S15s, the Maunsell Q 0-6-0s and subsequently the Bulleid Q1 0-6-0s, meant that some of the usual duties of the 700s were lost but there continued to be very useful goods work for them until almost the end of steam.
In 1948 all had 30000 added to their former LSWR/SR numbers, but they all continued working into the 1950s. Except for no 30688, an accident casualty in 1957, they all survived until the rapid decline in goods traffic and local branch and secondary lines in the early 1960s. Wholesale withdrawal of the class took place in 1961 and 1962, although 30697 was steamed for the last time in January 1964, after a lifespan of almost 67 years. Several of the last survivors were taken out of "normal service" and fitted with snow ploughs in the autumn of 1963 (a classic case of responding after the event!) and were finally withdrawn with snow ploughs still attached
The first to be withdrawn was No. 30688 in September 1957 from Feltham shed after being involved in an accident.
The second, No. 30352, following in June 1959 and then the 3rd, No. 30687, in September 1960.
Massive inroads into the class took place during 1961-62. and the final seven were all withdrawn by British Railways in December 1962.
None were saved for preservation.


700 Drummond LSWR 700 0-6-0 class



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699 Feltham 1949



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ex works 30316

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30346 Feltham 9th February 1957


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30355 Eastleigh Works August 1959





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30368 Drummond 700 19/06/62 0850 Basingstoke 70D
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30690 Eastleigh works August 1959



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30695 Eastleigh 12th April 1962



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30697 Guildford February 1958




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30701 Clapham Jct March 1959


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