The SE&CR Class D1 was a class of 4-4-0 "Eight-Wheeler" type steam locomotives designed by Harry Wainwright for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR), a total of 21 examples were rebuilt by Richard Maunsell.
History[]
The SE&CR Class D1 were constructed by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway as the SE&CR Class D from 1901 that were designed by Harry Wainwright and they were all delivered to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR) after they were constructed.
By 1913, there was a demand for even more powerful locomotives to operate on the Kent Coastline and so, Richard Maunsell had rebuilt 21 examples into what had became SE&CR Class D1 and had fitted them with Belpaire Fireboxes, larger boilers and a longer cylinder travel.
The twenty-one examples of the SE&CR Class D1 had worked around the London/Kent area for many years but had been relegated to more secondary duties by the 1930s in the wake of more modern steam locomotive designs.
After the 1948 nationalization that created British Rail, the SE&CR Class D1 had remained in service until they were all withdrawn by British Rail until the last example was withdrawn in 1961, and although one member of the D Class had survived, none of the twenty-one examples of the SE&CR Class D1 had survived into preservation, they were all scrapped, thus rendering them extinct.
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