page_title: SECR P class
section_title: No. 27
hierarchical_section_title: SECR P class / Preservation / No. 27
caption_attribution_description: English: P class 27 at Horsted Keynes
context_page_description: The South Eastern and Chatham Railway P Class is a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotive designed by Harry Wainwright.
  They were inspired by, and loosely based on, the more successful LB&SCR A1 Class "Terriers" and eight were built in 1909 and 1910. They were originally intended for lightweight passenger trains, to replace underpowered steam railmotors. Certain cost-saving design compromises had been made, compared to the Terrier design, and the P class were found to be underpowered, having only 73% of the Terrier's tractive effort. The P class were later re-allocated to shunting and station pilot duties.
  All eight locomotives passed into Southern Railway ownership at The Grouping in 1923, and into British Railways ownership at Nationalisation in 1948. Withdrawals took place between 1955 and 1961, but four examples have been preserved.
context_section_description: South Eastern and Chatham Railway P class No. 27 was the second P-class engine to be brought for preservation by the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. It arrived in 1961 and was used extensively until it was withdrawn for an overhaul in 1974. At the time the workshops were unable to overhaul it and so it was placed in storage. During its time in service on the Bluebell, it carried two liveries; the first being BR black with its SE&CR number 27 and its name Primrose between 1961 and 1963, after which in 1963 it was repainted in SE&CR lined green.
  The locomotive was largely dismantled in the early 1980s as an exercise for apprentices from Stratford Works.  However the overhaul did not take place as intended and the work was not commenced until 2011, by which time the loco had suffered greatly from corrosion.  The restoration is being funded by the Fenchurch Fund and it is hoped that the loco will be working by 2019. this will dovetail with the withdrawal from traffic of sister loco 323 "Bluebell".
  SE&CR No. 27 was last painted in SE&CR lined green. It is planned to restore it as Southern Railway No. A27 in SR Olive Green, as it would have looked after 1923 while based at Ashford.
  The Fenchurch Fund Project 27 has obtained a new set of cylinders for the loco. These have now been cast using polystyrene patterns using technology pioneered for the LMS Patriot Project. They were delivered to Sheffield Park towards the end of 2017. A new set of frames, dragboxes & buffer beams were earlier delivered in October 2017.
caption: No. 27 at Horsted Keynes
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