The British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 is one of the 12 standard classes of steam engine designed by British Railways in the 1950s. It was a variant of the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 ("Black Five"). Between 1951 and 1957, 172 were constructed.
The British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 is one of the 12 standard classes of steam engine designed by British Railways in the 1950s.
It was a variant of the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 ("Black Five"). Between 1951 and 1957, 172 were constructed.
The most successful mixed-traffic design in Great Britain was the Black Five, developed by Sir William Stanier.
The Black Fives were constructed beginning in 1934 and lasted until nationalization in 1951.
A new set of "standard" locomotives was to be built by British Railways based on LMS designs and incorporating modern technologies of the time.
The Standard design included features to make it simpler to dispose of the engine after a working "turn": a self-cleaning smokebox and a rocking grate greatly reduced the need for staff to perform filthy and difficult tasks at the end of their long shifts.
The original design proposal for the class 5 locomotive had a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement, similar in concept to the Bulleid Light Pacifics that performed impressively during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges.
However this was deemed unnecessarily large and costly for a class 5 power requirement, so the successful LMS Class 5 4-6-0 design was used as the basis instead.
The pacific design went on to be enlarged and used for the BR Standard Class 6.
Bachmann 32-511 BR Standard Class 5MT 73051 BR Lined Green Late Crest Weathered
Highlights
• Removable coal load with empty coal space modelled below
• Sprung buffers
• BR1G Tender
