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The LSWR X2 class was a class of express passenger
4-4-0 4-4-0, in the Whyte notation, denotes a steam locomotive with a wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles (usually in a leading bogie), four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels. First built in the ...
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s designed for the
London and South Western Railway The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended to Dorchester and Weymouth, to Salisbury, Exete ...
by William Adams. Twenty were constructed at
Nine Elms Locomotive Works Nine Elms Locomotive Works were built in 1839 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) adjoining their passenger terminus near the Vauxhall end of Nine Elms Lane, in the district of Nine Elms in the London Borough of Battersea. They were re ...
between 1890 and 1892. The class were numbered 577–596, and were an enlarged version of the 460 class. Adams had designed his drivered locomotives for the London to Bournemouth route, while the drivered locomotives were intended for the London to Salisbury route which had more severe gradients. All passed to the Southern Railway at the
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in 1923. Withdrawals started in 1930, and by the end of 1933, only four remained. No. 592 went in 1936, numbers 587 and 590 were retired during 1937, leaving only No. 586, which was withdrawn in November 1942. All were scrapped.


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