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Pyracmon Class were

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s for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1847 and April 1848, and withdrawn between August 1871 and December 1873. ''Bacchus'' was added to the class in May 1849 (and withdrawn in November 1869), having been constructed to broadly the same design from spare parts. The ''Pyracmon'' class were a development of the preceding ''Premier'' class, the first locomotives to be constructed at the new

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. They differed in having the ''Premier''s haycock firebox replaced by Gooch's stronger round-topped firebox with its wrapper raised above the boiler barrel. From about 1865, ''Bacchus'' became part of the Fury Class, while the remaining locomotives became part of the Caesar Class.

Locomotives

* ''Alligator'' (1848 - 1873) *:An

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is a large kind of reptile. * ''Bacchus'' (1848 - 1873) *:This locomotive was built using the boiler from the unsuccessful ''

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was the Roman god of the harvest, a name that had been carried by one of the Charles Tayleur locomotives built in 1837. * ''Behemoth'' (1848 - 1873) *:This locomotive was sold to the engineers constructing the

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. The

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is a monster in the Book of Job in the Bible. * ''Caliban'' (February 1848 - April 1873) *:

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was a 'creature' from Shakespeare's ''

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''. * ''Mammoth'' (1848 - 1873) *:A

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is an extinct form of elephant. * ''Pyracmon'' (1847 - 1872) *: Pyracmon is one of the Greek mythological figures known as the

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. * ''Steropes'' (1848 - 1871) *: Steropes is also one of the Greek mythological figures known as the Cyclopes.

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