GN&SR 176 Class

The Great Northern & Southern Railway 176 Class was a class of fourty 0-6-0 tender locomotives built to a standard design by Adcock, Bäcker & Robertson. They were built between 1867 and 1870, with the first (№617) entering GN&SR service in May 1867 with it's trial period ending in July. Following from №617, the first two batches followed a regular numbering pattern being №s 618 - 650, whereas the final six took the numbers of withdrawn locomotives of the 9 Class 2-2-2s.

Year Built:	Number in Order:	Locomotive Numbers:	Rebuild Dates:	Details:
1867	14	617 - 630	N/A	№s 618 & 622 sold to D. A. Frye, Lowton in 1893.
1868/69	20	631 - 650	1894	№s 631 - 634 arrived Dec. 1868, rest followed in 1869.
1870	6	10, 13 - 15, 17, 20	1890	№13 sold to Bereoir Railway.

Later in their service life, seventeen locomotives were requisitioned for government use in 1916 to serve in Continental Europe with five leter being purchaed to run on military camp railways (MCRs). Twenty-One locomotives joined the ENR including №13, wich had been sold to the Bereoir Railway to work goods trains after an increase in milk, fish and parcels traffic on the line and coal to transfer yard for the nearby Ashburn Sanitorium. Withdrawals started in 1893 after two locomotives were sold to the trader Douglas Frye and his company operating out of Toston Works, Lowton. More withdrawals started in 1918 after №s 650, 15, 10, 623 & 634 were purchased by the Railway Operating Division. All vehicles owned by the Etorean National Railways were scrapped by the outbreak of the second world war, with the last working example being Ex - №622 working at Pike's Fell colliery now №9 until she was scrapped in early 1953.
Preservation:
The numberplates of №622 are in storage in the National Railway Museum's warehouse at the decomissioned admiralty site "MOD Colyth". An unconfermed account of 636's number and builder plates being sold as part of a railwayana auction surfaced in 1992.
An engine of a similar design (NWJR 48 Class №56) is preserved at the Azalea Line.

Accidents:
In 1888, locomotive №636 overran the buffers in goods platform 2 at Toxall Junction, Aleyeshire due to excessive speed. Only one person was injured being fireman E. G. Cartwright who sustained minor injuries.
In 1927, locomotive №s A617 & A649 were damaged in a fire at Colby Railway Shed. There were no casualites and both locomotives were withdrawn and scrapped in situe.

Class

AB&R Standard Goods

Manufacturer

Adcock, Bäcker & Robertson

Creation Date

1867 - 1870

Decommission Date

1893 - 1953

Destruction Date

1909 - 1953

Owning Organization

Great Northern & Southern Railway