4-6-0 Standard Class 4MT BR Profile and Models

4-6-0 Standard Class 4MT BR

75014 'Braveheart' at Goodrington on the Dartmouth Steam Railway in June 2019. ©Geof Sheppard

The British Railways Standard Class 4 4-6-0 is a class of steam locomotives, 80 of which were built during the 1950s. Six have been preserved. The class was introduced in 1951. They were designed for mixed traffic use on secondary routes where the otherwise ubiquitous BR Standard Class 5 and their predecessors, the Black Fives, would be too heavy. They were essentially a tender version of the standard 4 2-6-4T, with similar characteristics to the GWR Manor Class, though unlike the Manors they were built to the universal loading gauge. The class was initially allocated to the London Midland Region (45) and the Western Region (20). The last 15 were allocated to the Southern Region. 

(Information provided via Wikipedia)

Type of Locomotive

Steam

Builder

BR Swindon Works

Build Date

1951 to 1957

Total Built

80

Tractive Effort

25,515 lbf

Wheel Configuration

4-6-0

Operated By

British Railways

Main Duties

Mixed Traffic

In Service Until

1968

Surviving Examples

6