F&WVJR H Class - WVR Lined Red

F&WVJR H Class - WVR Lined Red

The Metropolitan Railway H Class consisted of eight 4-4-4T steam locomotives, numbered 103 to 110. They were built by Kerr, Stuart & Co of Stoke on Trent in 1920 at a cost of £11,575 each.These locomotives were purchased for the express passenger trains on the Metropolitan Railway's mainline between Harrow (later Rickmansworth) - the change point from electric locomotives - and Aylesbury or Verney Junction.
They were designed by The Met's Locomotive & Chief Electrical Engineer, Charles Jones. Delivered between October 1920 and June 1921, they allowed for the retirement of a like number of 0-4-4T C Class and 2-4-0T D Class locomotives. The H Class were considered to be good engines well-suited to the express trains they worked, allowing for a reduction in running times of up to six minutes. They were designed with a hauling capacity of 250 long tons (250 t; 280 short tons) and could negotiate curves of 300 feet (91 m) radius.
When the steam-hauled services were transferred from London Transport to the London and North Eastern Railway in 1937, all eight H Class locomotives were included to continue working the same trains. The LNER numbered them 6415-6422 and classified them as H2 Class. In the 1940s, they were moved from Neasden (LNER) shed to the Nottingham area and worked over other parts of the former Great Central Railway system.
All were withdrawn and scrapped between 1942 and 1947.
In fiction: Based on some of the ideas presented in Jago Hazzard's 'What if the Metropolitan Line wasn't an Underground Line' video, this is my interpretation of what the H class tanks would have looked like if the GWR took over the Metropolitan railway shortly before Grouping in 1923. In this timeline, the class was repainted into GWR Brunswick green in 1924, and worked the Ex-Metropolitan railway until 1926 when the GWR began standardising the network, slowly phasing out the inherited Metropolitan locomotives used on the Metropolitan's main line in favour of the 45xx and 51xx prarie tank engines. This meant that the H class were withdrawn from their express duties by July 1926, and laid up alongside several of the Met's other tank engines. Because of the H Class' fairly young age, the GWR decided that instead of scrapping them, that they'd put the engines up for sale to other railways in September 1926, with any un-sold engines being sent to Swindon for severe rebuilding. Of the 8 engines, 4 were sold to the (fictitious) Flockton & Westbridge Valley Joint Railway (Lettering shortened to FWVJR by 1924) in November 1926 to fill a gap in the railway's suburban tank engine roster, relieving the FWVJR's smaller M1 0-4-4, Md 0-6-2, Ct 4-4-2, and C32 2-4-2 tank engines from the heaviest non-stop peak hour services. These four engines initially stayed in GWR Green with the FWVJR Block Letters II scheme until being repainted into the FWVJR's WVR Maroon livery by 1928, and later Suburban/Wartime Black livery between 1930-1934 and 1939-1946.
In Addition to the four Ex-Metropolitan engines, the FWVJR ordered five more from Kerr Stuart in 1928 to the same design. These new engines brought the class total up to 9, and were numbered 610-614 respectively.
The engines would carry on in FWVJR service until nationalisation in 1948, when they came under BR ownership and carried on in BR Black until the arrival of the Standard 4mt's and Class 101, 117 and 121 DMU railcars onto the F&WVJR network in the 1950's-1960's.
Special thanks to Edh6 for the original model, providing assistance with the BR Logos in the livery set, and giving permission for me to upload this model to the DLS.
Thanks to PaulHobbs and Trainboi1 for their mesh library elements, many of which have been used in the model.
Crew figures by Skipper1945.
Superscript by Andi06.
Couplings by s301.
Steam effects by Lilb and S301.
Sounds by TRW1089
Espec by 2995Valiant

Author: Edward Heaps

F&WVJR H Class - WVR Lined Red
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