SR Q1 Class No. C1

Southern Railway No. C1 is a Q1 class 0-6-0 "Switcher" type steam locomotive built by the Brighton Locomotive Works in 1942 for the Southern Railway (SR) in the United Kingdom. It is one of 40 of these steamers designed by Oliver Bulleid and built by both the SR's Brighton Locomotive Works and Ashford Locomotive Works during World War II.
When Britain's railways were nationalized and the SR merged with the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), and the Great Western Railway (GWR) to form British Railways (BR) in 1948, it was renumbered to BR 33001. It remained in revenue service with BR until it was officially retired in 1964 and initially sent for scrapping, but thankfully, it was later moved to the Bluebell Railway in Uckfield, England sometime in the 1970s. After a few operations on excursion trains there, it has since become a common sight at the National Railway Museum in York, England where it has remained on indoor static display as part of the National Collection.
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File:SR Q1 Class C1 at Sheffield Park.jpg
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:United Kingdom
Category:Southern Railway (UK) locomotives
Category:Brighton Works locomotives
Category:Built in 1942
Category:National Railway Museum
Category:Locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives
Category:Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Category:Tender locomotives
Category:0-6-0 locomotives
Category:0-6-0 steam locomotives
Category:Sole survivor
Category:Preserved locomotives
Category:Preserved steam locomotives
Category:Bluebell Railway
Category:Bulleid locomotives
Category:Six-coupled locomotives
Category:4 foot 8 1⁄2 inch gauge