Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for shunting duties
What was the operator of L&amp;YR Class 21 from 1886 to Dec 1922?
L&amp;YR Class 21 The L&YR Class 21 is a class of small 0-4-0ST steam locomotive built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for shunting duties . They were nicknamed Pugs . Construction history . The class originates in the purchase of three saddle tank locomotives ordered from Vulcan Foundry in 1886 . They were fitted with an long , diameter boiler pressed to powering two outside cylinders connected to driving wheels . The wheelbase was and the total heating surface of the saturated boiler was . J . A . F . Aspinall then ordered more locomotives of a modified design : the wheelbase was shortened to , the tank was extended over the smokebox , the cab was enlarged , and the boiler pressure raised to . Seventeen of this modified design were ordered from Horwich Works in three batches ; Aspinalls successor Henry Hoy order another batch of 10 ; and Hoys successor George Hughes ordered 30 more in two batches . The last locomotive was delivered in July 1910 , four months before the first retirement ; 917 and 918 were withdrawn in November that year , but were not scrapped until November 1912 . Operational history . The London , Midland and Scottish Railway ( LMS ) gave the locomotives the power classification 0F . In total sixty were made between 1886 and 1910 . They were built for use in sharply curved sidings for shunting duties . The Pugs were allocated by the L&YR for operation in the industrial areas and docks of Fleetwood , Goole , Liverpool and Salford . In later times they became more widely dispersed , reaching places such as Bristol , Bangor , Crewe , Derby , Widnes , York and Swansea . When the LMS was merged into British Railways on 1 January 1948 , 23 Pugs remained in service ; BR added 40,000 to their fleet numbers . Withdrawal . Withdrawals started in 1910 with two going in that year . Four went in the 1920s , 31 in the 1930s ; leaving 23 to be withdrawn between 1957 and 1964 . Accidents and incidents . - On 5 July 1963 , one of the driving wheels of locomotive No . 51232 sheared off at , Lancashire . Preservation . Two Pugs have survived into preservation , both through the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust . L&YR No . 19 ( LMS No . 11243 ) , built in 1910 , was sold by the LMS into industry in 1931 and was acquired by the Trust from the United Glass Bottle Manufacturers Ltd . at Charlton in 1967 . It was found to be in poor mechanical condition and was later placed on static display pending overhaul , most recently at the Ribble Steam Railway . In early 2020 the locomotive moved to the East Lancashire Railway in Bury . Following an inspection of its condition , it was decided to proceed with restoring it to working order . This restoration is now in progress . L&YR No . 68 ( LMS No . 11218 , BR No . 51218 ) , built in 1901 , was purchased directly from British Rail in 1964 and moved to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in January 1965 . The locomotive was re-tubed in 1974 and took part in the Stockton & Darlington Railway cavalcade that year . The locomotive was overhauled again in 1997 and continued in service , albeit mostly as a shunting locomotive due to its low power , until its boiler tubes required replacement in 2006 . The locomotive carried its original identity of L&YR 68 from 2004 onwards , but has been cosmetically restored in 2018 to 51218 for the K&WVRs 50th Anniversary Gala , reflecting that 51218 was the first loco to arrive in 1965 . Overhaul is now under consideration at Haworth on the K&WVR as the restoration of 0-6-0ST No . 752 has now been completed at the East Lancashire Railway . Models . Several models of the Pug have been produced commercially . The first was a OO-scale polystyrene kit made in the 1960s by Kitmaster , the moulds for which were subsequently sold to Airfix then passed on to Dapol , which still manufactures the former Airfix plastic kit range . This kit has often been used as the basis for a narrow-gauge pug bash locomotive running on 00-9 tracks . A ready-to-run OO model was produced initially by Dapol and then Hornby where the Pug was produced until 2000 . The Pug was reintroduced to Hornbys range in 2010 ( R2927 ) in early British Railways Livery . Larger scale models are available from a number of suppliers including Tower Models of Blackpool .