The SE&CR Class B1 was a class of 4-4-0 "Eight-Wheeler" type steam locomotives designed by a man named James Stirling and they were built by two different builders, with twenty examples built by the Neilson, Reid and Company and the remaining nine were built by the Ashford Railway Works.
History[]
A total of 29 examples of what became the SE&CR Class B1 were ever constructed with twenty examples built by the Neilson, Reid and Company and the nine were built by the Ashford Railway Works, they were all delivered to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR) that same year.
Withdrawal of the class had occurred between 1930–1951 and the last engine was out of service by 1951, they were all cut up afterwards.