NMR C6 Class №22
North Midland Railway №22 was a member of the C6 class of 0-6-0T tank engines. She was built in October 1887 to a by Kitson & Company in Leeds, England to a design by Benjamin McCord, along with classmates №s 4 & 18. She primarily shunted at Calsley goods yard.
On occasion she was seen pulling short goods trains on the Grange Island Branchline but was never used widely on mainline trains due to the small coal capacity that the C6 class possessed. She was one of twelve C6 class locomotives to be loaned to the Railway Operating Division for use in France during World War One; Initially, howerver, she was used to shunt trains at a classified ammunition site before being moved to Knightsbury. From there she spent two months running trains between the Knightsbury Small Arms Factory and the docks at Bannockstone while being kept at Golder's Green Sheds. №22 was part of the cargo being carried by the EMS Tamriel when she was sunk by German U-Boat SM U-23 on the 8th May 1916. №22 survived nearly intact at the bottom of the Shelby Strait and is designated a war cemetary along with the rest of the wreckage.
On occasion she was seen pulling short goods trains on the Grange Island Branchline but was never used widely on mainline trains due to the small coal capacity that the C6 class possessed. She was one of twelve C6 class locomotives to be loaned to the Railway Operating Division for use in France during World War One; Initially, howerver, she was used to shunt trains at a classified ammunition site before being moved to Knightsbury. From there she spent two months running trains between the Knightsbury Small Arms Factory and the docks at Bannockstone while being kept at Golder's Green Sheds. №22 was part of the cargo being carried by the EMS Tamriel when she was sunk by German U-Boat SM U-23 on the 8th May 1916. №22 survived nearly intact at the bottom of the Shelby Strait and is designated a war cemetary along with the rest of the wreckage.
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October 1887
Destruction Date
8th May 1916
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