NMR C14 Class

The North Midland Railway C14 class were a class of twenty-nine 0-6-0Ts designed for passenger use between Grunham and Telston. All of them passed into the hands of the Great Northern & Southern Railway in 1902 being renumbered to 1342 - 1370. Most of the class was built at the Aclesdon Locomotive Works of the NMR, five however were built at the smaller Calsley Locomotive Works. These were the so called "bad batch" as they were found to be rougher riders than those built at Aclesdon. This caused the Calsley Locomotive Works to become the new carriage and wagon works for the NMR.   In GN&SR days, they were displaced on passenger services between Grunham and Telston with them being relegated to various station pilot, shunting and branchline uses. They were often found working stone trains over the Alder's Heath branchline where the stone would then be taken up the mainline after being collected at the junction station at Monkton.  

Works:	Order:	NMR Numbers:	GN&SR Numbers:	ENR Numbers:	Details:
ALW	C14	34, 26, 28, 25, 21, 14, 20, 2	1342 - 1349	41342 - 41349
ALW	G21	11, 17, 19, 41, 44, 45, 50, 49, 47, 16, 3, 8, 6	1350 - 1362	41350 - 41362
CLW	X10	29, 4, 15, 37, 13	1363 - 1367	N / A
ALW	F26	38, 39, 40	1368 - 1370	41368 - 41370

Withdrawals started in 1917 when the CLW batch (order X10) were sold to the Railway Operating Division becoming ROD R №s 47 - 51. These were rebuilt by Thomas Bates & Co. before seeing service at various military sites. Withdrawals continued in the 40s with two (ENR №s 41350 & 41343) being sold to the Eyreshire Canal and Docks Improvement Committee with a third (41352) following in to serve as a source of spare parts for the engines. Four other locomotives were also sold by the ENR into other use with two going to use at collieries, one at a paper mill and the fourth being sold to Boyce & Beck Railway Contractors.  

ENR Number:	Buyer:	Number:	Details:
41350, 41343, 41352	EC&DIC	1 & 2
41342	United Coke & Coal	8	UCC Broadwater
41340	United Coke & Coal	21	UCC Phesants Wood
41369	A. C. Papers	3	Named "Pippa"
41370	Boyce & Beck	17	Ran off of pier head.

All ENR owned locomotives had been withdrawn by 1966 with 41349 serving as a stationary boiler behind Calsley Locomotive Sheds (32B) until she was scrapped in 1972. The last non - ENR loco to be withdrawn was A C Papers №3 which was withdrawn in 1979 and is the only member of the class to have survived into preservation although "conservation" would be a better world to describe it's current state.