DSER 15 and 16
| DSER 15 and 16 GSR class K2 / 461 CIÉ class K2 / 461 |
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 DSER 15 (as GSR 461), exits the Whitehead Tunnel towards Larne Harbor
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Beyer-Peacock 6112–6113 (serial numbers) DSER 15–16 GSR / CIÉ 461–462 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | Beyer, Peacock and Company |
| Year of construction (s): | 1922 |
| Retirement: | 1963-1965 |
| Axis formula : | 1'C |
| Type : | 1'C h2 |
| Gauge : | 1600 mm |
| Service mass: | 50.9 t (50 long tons 1 cwt ; 112,100 lb ) |
| Friction mass: | 44.1 t (43 long tons 9 cwt ; 97,300 lb ) |
| Wheel set mass : | 15.3 t (15 long tons 1 cwt ; 33,700 lb ) |
| Starting tractive effort: | 101.82 kN (22.890 lb f ) |
| Coupling wheel diameter: | 1,549 mm (5 ft 1 in ) |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,549 mm (5 ft 1 in ) |
| Impeller diameter front: | 914 mm (3 ft ) |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 (inside) |
| Cylinder diameter: | 483 mm (19 in ) |
| Piston stroke: | 660 mm (26 in ) |
| Boiler overpressure: | 1.21 MPa (175 lb f / in² ) |
| Grate area: | 1.9 m² (20 sq ft ) |
| Radiant heating surface: | 12.4 m² (134 sq ft ) |
| Tubular heating surface: | 88.4 m² (952 sq ft ) |
| Superheater area : | 15.2 m² (164 sq ft ) |
| Service weight of the tender: | 33 t (32 long tons 10 cwt ; 72,800 lb ) |
| Water supply: | 12,000 L (2,600 Imperial gallons ; 3,100 U.S. gallons ) |
| Fuel supply: | 5.1 t (5 long tons ; 11,200 lb ) |
| Drive: | steam |
| Control: | 203 mm (8 in ) spool valve |
The DSER 15 and 16 were two 1C - steam locomotives , which for heavy goods traffic on the main line of the Dublin and South Eastern Railway (DSER) from Dublin to Wexford were built. The two locomotives were designed by GH Wild and built by Beyer, Peacock and Company at their Gorton Foundry in Manchester .
history
Because of the risk of damage to the new locomotives during the Irish Civil War between 1921 and 1922, the two copies were sent to Belfast for safekeeping . They were with the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNRI) in Adelaide until they returned to DSER in 1923. The locomotives were retired in the early 1960s.
In 1925 the DSER became part of the Great Southern Railways and the two locomotives were re-designated as 461 and 462 and assigned as Class 461 or Class K2 .
Coloring
The locomotive, originally designed in the green of the DSER, was painted an unlined dark "battleship gray" with the takeover by Great Southern Railways (GSR) in their freight color scheme. In the late 1950s, unlined black was introduced as the general color scheme at GSR. This was also the paintwork that the locomotive with the number 461 received when it was last overhauled, together with replica cast number plates from its time at GSR.
After its restoration in 2011, the 461 in the lime green of the CIE color scheme was used again.
Preserved locomotive
The 461 was preserved at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI). 461 was in Wexford for the freight service , stationed in Waterford, where it was used before beet trains until they were retired in 1962, a year before the CIÉ the steam engine use ended. In 1977 the CIÉ handed over the locomotive to the RPSI. An extensive overhaul in Whitehead followed and the locomotive returned to service in late 1990. Currently (2011) the locomotive was undergoing a complete overhaul in the RPSI workshop in Whitehead. The 461 locomotive was seen in several movies, such as B. Michael Collins and My Mother's Ashes .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DUBLIN & SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY K2 (GSR CLASSIFICATION) 2-6-0 No. 461. In: Railway Preservation Society of Ireland. Retrieved January 15, 2009 .
- ↑ rpsi-online.org ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FILM CONTRACTS. (No longer available online.) In: Railway Preservation Society of Ireland. Archived from the original on July 24, 2010 ; Retrieved January 14, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Jeremy Clements, Michael McMahon: Locomotives of the GSR. Colourpoint Books, Newtownards 2008, ISBN 978-1-906578-26-8 , pp. 151-152, 287.