The LBSCR (London, Brighton, and South Coast railway) Class E1/E1X was a type of 0-6-0 side-tank steam locomotive built from 1874-1891 designed by William Stroudley.
History[]
They were mainly used for shunting duties around the goods yards and for station piloting duties They were originally classified E, and generally known as "E-tanks"; They were reclassified E1 in the time of D. E. Marsh.
Only one E1 has been preserved at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway when it was traded to them. Originally named Burgundy they would later rename it Yarmouth. It is almost ironic that even though the later E2's where built to replace the aging A1's and E1's they ended up getting scrapped as the the A1's and E1's survived in preservation.
E1x[]
E1x no 89a
D. E. Marsh wanted to rebuild the aging E1 fleet to a new bigger and more powerful design he ended up making the E1x.
One locomotive (no. 89) was built with a larger boiler by D. E. Marsh between January and June 1911 and classified E1X. it was numbered 89A in October 1911, and later renumbered 689 in December 1912. However this was rebuilt as an E1 in 1930 once the boiler was condemned.
D. E. Marsh only got to make one before he unexpectedly retired and no more were made.
E1/R[]
SR E1/R no 2096
Starting 1927 the Southern Railway rebuilt 10 of the original E1's into new more powerful E1/R to be used in the West of England. They had their frames extended, bunkers and water tanks enlarged at Brighton works over the next two years. They started as rough riders but after complaints form passengers they were re-balanced. They performed well for nearly twenty years but withdrawal in 1955 and they were finally all replaced by Ivatt's prairie tanks by 1959.