page_title: Federated Malay States Railways
section_title: FMSR Class B
hierarchical_section_title: Federated Malay States Railways / Rolling stock / FMSR Class B
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Model pociągu z 1885 roku który kursował na trasie z Taiping do Port Weld. Muzeum Narodowe (Muzium Negara). Kuala Lumpur, Malezja. English: Model of a train from 1885 that ride on the route from Taiping to Port Weld. National Museum (Muzium Negara). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
context_page_description: The Federated Malay States Railways was a consolidated railway operator in British Malaya during the first half of the 20th century. Named after the then recently formed Federated Malay States in 1896 and founded five years after the formation of the federation, the company acquired various railways that were developed separately in various parts of Malaya, and oversaw the largest expansion and integration of the colonies' rail network encompassing the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States and the Straits Settlements, with lines spanning from Singapore to the south to Padang Besar to the north.
context_section_description: The 4-4-0T FMSR Class B locomotives were heavier, more powerful versions of the original Class A, with extended tanks. Also originated from local state railways, the series was, however, made up of a smaller number of locomotives, compared to the Class A, with only seven.
  Like the Class A, the Class B was introduced in 1901 with the redesignation of the two Perak Railway locomotives, one from Hunslet, and another from Hawthorn Leslie. In 1910, the Class B fleet would see another addition, another Hunslet locomotive from the Johore Railway, followed by another three from Singapore Railway (two Hunslets and one Hawthorn Leslie) and two Hunslets from Johore Railway in 1912.
  Class B locomotives were retired as new locomotives were delivered for the FMSR. While four Class B locomotives were removed from the active fleet during the 1920s with the last Class B withdrawn in 1932, three others were sold to the Malayan Collieries in 1923 and 1925.
caption: Scale model of Perak Railway No. 6 (later designated as an FMSR Class B) and a Perak Railway brake van circa-1890, National Museum.
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