JGR Class 230

The JGR Class 230 is a 2-4-2T Columbian-type side tank steam locomotive built for the JGR from 1902 to 1909.
==History==
The 230s were used mainly as freight locomotives and was known as the first domestically mass-produced steam locomotive. The 230s were based on the Class 500, 600 and 700 locomotives made by Dübs & Co., Nasmyth, Wilson & Co., Ltd. and the Vulcan Foundry in the United Kingdom, with thirty-eight built by Kisha Seizō. The locomotives were retired in the 1960s.
Two locomotives, namely 233 and 268, have survived into preservation. A member of Taiwanese derivative of the 230s, the Class BK10, is preserved; locomotive number BK24 is preserved at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City, Taiwan.
==Preservation==
The following Class 230 locomotives have been preserved:
Number	Manufacturer 	Date manufactured	Serial number	Date withdrawn 	Location 	Notes
233 	Kisha Seizō 	August 1903 	15 	20 March 1959 	Kyoto Railway Museum, Kyoto, Japan 	Displayed indoors
268 	Kisha Seizō 	December 1904 	26 	1 November 1954	Tosu Station, Tosu, Kyushu, Japan 	Displayed under shelter within fence; accessible from station's east exit
BK24 	Nippon Sharyo	1904 	32 	1 June 1954 	National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan	Displayed under shelter within fence
==Trivia==
*A common theory is that the Class 230s are the first locomotives to have been manufactured by a private domestic manufacturer; this is partially true, as the locomotives are the first locomotives to be mass-produced by a private domestic manufacturer, but is not the first to be produced by a private company, with that title going to the JGR Class 180.
==Gallery ==
File:JGR 233 2020.jpg
File:JGR 233 2007.jpg
==References==
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