{{Short description|Class of 316 British double-framed 0-6-0 locomotives}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox Locomotive | powertype = Steam | name = Midland Railway 700 Class | image = Bournville Locomotive Depot ancient ex-Midland double-framed 0-6-0 geograph-2805238-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg | caption = No. 22846 at Bournville Locomotive Depot 27 July 1947 | designer = [[Matthew Kirtley]] | builder = [[Derby Works]] (26)<br>[[Dübs & Co.]] (150)<br>[[John Fowler & Co.]] (10)<br>[[Kitson & Co.]] (10)<br>[[Neilson & Co.]] (40)<br>[[Vulcan Foundry]] (80) | builddate = 1869–1874 | totalproduction = 316 | whytetype = [[0-6-0]] | uicclass = C n2 | gauge = {{RailGauge|ussg|allk=on}} | driverdiameter = {{convert|5|ft|2+1/2|in|m|3|abbr=on}} | length = | locoweight = {{long ton|36|0}} | fueltype = [[Coal]] | fuelcap = | watercap = | cylindercount = Two, inside | cylindersize = {{convert|17|x|24|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} | firearea = | totalsurface = {{convert|1100|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} | boilerpressure = {{convert|140|lbf/in2|kPa|0|abbr=on}} | tractiveeffort = | operator = [[Midland Railway|MR]] → [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway|LMS]] → [[British Railways|BR]]<br>[[Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane|FS]] | operatorclass = MR: 700<br>LMS: 1F<br>FS: 380 | powerclass = 1F | withdrawndate = 1903 – 1951 | disposition = All but a single tender [[scrap]]ped }} The '''Midland Railway 700 Class''' was a large class of [[Locomotive frame#Plate frames|double frame]]d [[0-6-0]] freight [[steam locomotives]] designed by [[Matthew Kirtley]] for the [[Midland Railway]]. They were in the [[power classification]] 1F.
==Early withdrawals== Six locomotives - nos. 271/9, 1007/31/52/3 - were withdrawn from service between 1903 and 1905.{{sfn|Hunt|Essery|James|2002|pp=70–71}}
Fifty more were sold in 1906 to the Italian State Railway, [[Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane]] (FS), where they formed [[:it:Locomotiva_FS_380|FS Class 380]]; they had been ordered by one of the constituents of the FS, the [[Rete Mediterranea]].{{sfn|Hunt|Essery|James|2002|p=94}} They were meant to fill a gap of usable locomotives after the nationalization of the Italian railways. They were intended to remain in service for a few years; however, some of them remained active into the 1920s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kalla-Bishop|first1=P.M.|title=Italian state railways steam locomotives : together with low-voltage direct current and three-phase motive power|date=1986|publisher=Tourret|location=Abingdon|isbn=0905878035|page=26}}</ref>
==Numbering== After the Midland Railway's 1907 renumbering scheme, the numbers were: * 2592–2671, 2674–2711 and 2713–2867{{sfn|Hunt|Essery|James|2002|pp=9, 11}} Numbers 2672/3 were members of the [[Midland Railway 480 Class|480 Class]]; no. 2712 was a member of the [[Midland Railway 240 Class|240 Class]],{{sfn|Hunt|Essery|James|2002|p=9}} which had been given a number in the wrong series as the result of a clerk's error.{{sfn|Hunt|Essery|James|2002|p=101, note 9}}
==Accidents and incidents== *On 3 December 1892, locomotive No. 871 was hauling a freight train that crashed at Wymondham Junction, [[Leicestershire]], severely damaging the signal box.{{sfn|Earnshaw|1990|p=6}}
[[File:Midland Kirtley double-framed 0-6-0 at Bournville Shed, 1947 (geograph 4979672).jpg | thumb| 22863 at Bournville Shed, 1947]] ==Military service== 78 locomotives of the class were loaned to the [[War Department (United Kingdom)|War Department]] during the [[First World War]] and were used by the [[Railway Operating Division]] of the [[Royal Engineers]] for military duties in France. A further three were selected to go but instead were loaned to the [[London and South Western Railway]] (LSWR) between December 1917 and February 1920 The locomotives allocated were 2707–11/13–88 of which 2783–85 were sent to the LSWR.{{sfn|Aves|2009|p=146}} The remainder went to France at various dates in 1917 before being returned to the MR in 1919–20.{{sfn|Aves|2009|pp=157–158}} All returned to service with the MR except 2765, which was scrapped at Derby in 1920 after suffering broken frames during its time with the ROD.{{sfn|Aves|2009|p=147}}
One engine, 2717, was cut off in [[No man's land]] during the [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai]] in November 1917 and was subsequently captured by the German army during [[Operation Michael]]. The Germans salvaged the engine and used it on their military railway in the Brussels area. Recovered after the war, the engine was returned to the MR.{{sfn|Aves|2009|pp=146–147}}
== Preservation == None of the 700 Class locomotives survived into preservation, but a tender from No. 2846 does survive behind preserved [[Midland Railway 156 Class|156 Class]] No. 158A.
==See also== * [[Locomotives of the Midland Railway]]
==Notes== {{reflist|colwidth=20em}}
== References == *{{cite book |title=The Railway Operating Division on the Western Front |first=William |last=Aves |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-900289-993 |publisher=Shaun Tyas |location= Donnington, Lincolnshire }} *{{Baxter: British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923|volume=3A}} *{{cite book |last=Earnshaw |first=Alan |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 6 |year=1990 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Penryn |isbn=0-906899-37-0 }} *{{cite book |title=Midland Engines: No. 4 - The '700' Class Double-frame Goods Engines |first3=Fred |last3=James |first1=David |last1=Hunt |first2=R.J. |last2=Essery |authorlink2=Bob Essery |year=2002 |isbn=1-874103-73-9 |publisher=Wild Swan Publications |location=Didcot }} {{Midland Railway Locomotives}}
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