Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 33, 2008

The SR Class Q, also regarded as the Q Class, is a type of 0-6-0 steam locomotive constructed prior to the Second World War for use in the United Kingdom. The class was designed by Richard Maunsell to Victorian principles of locomotive design, and were for use on medium-distance freight turns to be found on the Southern Railway network. Twenty locomotives were built under the auspices of Maunsell's successor, Oliver Bulleid, in 1938, though they were superseded by Bulleid's newer Q1 Class design. Modified by Bulleid to improve performance, the Q Class locomotives were utilised throughout the Southern system until their withdrawal in 1965. Only one has survived into preservation; it is displayed on the Bluebell Railway.