BR Standard Class 8

The BR Standard Class 8 is a single 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive made in 1954 for British Railways. It was named Duke of Gloucester. It was made to replace an engine that was destroyed in the  of 1952.

Gallery

 Sound 

 71000 passing St Andrew's Junction

 References 

 'British Railways standard 3 cylinder 4-6-2 express passenger steam locomotive No. 71000' (HMSO, British Transport Commission: London, 1957), p. [58] (Performance and efficiency tests, Bulletin No. 15)
'British Railways standard class "8" locomotives' (Engineer: 1954, 197, 81)
 'B.R. class 8 4-6-2 locomotive No. 71000' (Locomotive, Railway Carriage and Wagon Review: 1954, 60)
 'British Railways prototype class '8" express passenger locomotive' (Railway Magazine: 1954, 100)
 Clarke, David: Riddles Class 6/7 Standard Pacifics (Locomotives in Detail volume 5) (Ian Allan: Hinckley, 2006) 
 Herring, Peter: Classic British Steam Locomotives (Abbeydale Press: London, 2000) Section "BR Standard Class 8" 
 Hopkins, Danny and Streeter, Tony: 'The Duke's Bad Day' (Steam Railway Magazine: 2007, 338)
 Langston, Keith: Made in Crewe: 150 Years of Engineering Excellence (Mortons Media: Horncastle, 2006), 
 Nock, O.S.: 'Performance and efficiency tests on B.R. class 8 locomotive' (Engineer: 1957, 204)

Further reading

 Gilbert, Dr. P. T. (Ed.): A Detailed History Of BR Standard Steam Locomotives. Volume 1. Background to Standardisation and Pacific Classes (Railway Correspondence & Travel Society (RCTS): 1994) 

 Other websites 

 The 71000 Trust website - latest news and photos of the Duke of Gloucester 
 The Duke of Gloucester website - more detail and pictures
 Steam Special along the West Cumbria Coast 24th Feb and 10 March 2007 

Standard Class 8
Category:Individual locomotives
Category:British Railways steam locomotives