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Great Western Railway class 5101 “Large Prairie”

Preserved 5164 in March 2013 at Medstead and Four Marks station

Collett had a revised version of the earlier 5100 class procured from 1929. Since the class 5100 locomotives had the numbers 5111 to 5149 in addition to the number 5100, the first examples were given the numbers 5101 ...

Great Western Railway class 5101 “Large Prairie”Remove
Variant Standard
Built 1929-1949
Manufacturers Swindon
Wheel arrangement 1C1 t
Gauge 1435 mm
Length 12497 mm
Service mass 79709 kg
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General

Property Great Western Railway class 5101 “Large Prairie”
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Built 1929-1949
Manufacturers Swindon
Wheel arrangement 2-6-2T (Prairie)
Gauge 1,435 mm

Dimensions and weights

Property Great Western Railway class 5101 “Large Prairie”
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Length 12.50 m
Wheelbase 9.68 m
Service mass 79.7 t
Rigid wheelbase 4.50 m
Water capacity 9,093 l
Fuel capacity 4.1 t (coal)

Boiler

Property Great Western Railway class 5101 “Large Prairie”
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Grate area 1.891 m²
Firebox surface 11.316 m²
Tube heating surface 106.369 m²
Evaporative heating surface 117.684 m²
Superheater surface 7.637 m²
Total heating surface 125.3 m²

Power plant

Property Great Western Railway class 5101 “Large Prairie”
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Driver diameter 1,727 mm
Boiler pressure 13.8 bar
Expansion type simple expansion
Cylinders two, 457 x 762 mm

Power

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Power source steam
Estimated power 764 kW (1,039 PS)
Starting effort 108.1 kN

Calculated values

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Optimal speed 43 km/h
Power-to-weight ratio 9.6 kW/t
Heating Surface Equivalent 189.5 m²
Cylinder volume/HSE 1 : 1,320.04
Tractive force/Heating surface 1 : 18.01
Grate area/Heating surface 1 : 66.27
Firebox/Tube surface 1 : 9.40
Total/Superheater 1 : 15.41
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