Waterford, Limerick & Western No. 16 to 18 and 21
Great Southern class C5
In 1896 Kitson built four 4-4-2T tank locomotives for the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway in Ireland. They were intended for passenger service on long branch lines with many curves. Specified by locomotive superintendent John George Robinson, they looked similar to the LSWR “Radial Tanks”, but were smaller and had a smaller boiler. They were numbered 16 to 18 and 21. Their names were “Rocklands”, “Faugh-a-Ballagh”, “Geraldine” and “Blarney Castle”. Their livery was crimson lake.
When the Waterford, Limerick & Western became part of the Great Southern & Western in 1901, they were renumbered 269 to 271 and 274. In 1924 they became class C5 of the Great Southern Railway. In 1925 and 1926, they received new boilers which had a grate area of 15.8 square feet and a heating surface of 894 square feet. Their withdrawals were in 1949 and 1957.
Technical data
General
- Built
- 1896
- Manufacturers
- Kitson & Co.
- Wheel arrangement
- 4-4-2T (Atlantic)
- Gauge
- 1,600 mm (Irish broad gauge)
Dimensions and weights
- Wheelbase
- 7.96 m
- Service mass
- 47.7 t
- Adhesion mass
- 26.4 t
- Rigid wheelbase
- 2.29 m
- Axle load
- 13.2 t
- Water capacity
- 4,728 l
- Fuel capacity
- 1.8 t (coal)
Boiler
- Grate area
- 1.394 m²
- Firebox surface
- 8.175 m²
- Tube heating surface
- 72.464 m²
- Evaporative heating surface
- 80.64 m²
- Total heating surface
- 80.6 m²
Power plant
- Driver diameter
- 1,676 mm
- Boiler pressure
- 9.7 bar
- Expansion type
- simple expansion
- Cylinders
- two, 406 x 660 mm
Power
- Power source
- steam
- Estimated power
- 261 kW (355 PS)
- Starting effort
- 53.4 kN
Calculated values
- Factor of adhesion
- 1 : 4.85
- Optimal speed
- 31 km/h
- Power-to-weight ratio
- 5.5 kW/t
- Heating Surface Equivalent
- 121.5 m²
- Cylinder volume/HSE
- 1 : 1,409.96
- Adhesive weight/Total
- 1 : 1.81
- Tractive force/Heating surface
- 1 : 13.83
- Grate area/Heating surface
- 1 : 57.85
- Firebox/Tube surface
- 1 : 8.86
