London & North Western class A

Between 1893 and 1900, Francis Webb built 111 class A 0-8-0 goods locomotives for the LNWR. Like earlier Webb compounds with two driving axles they had two small high-pressure cylinders on the outside and one larger low-pressure cylinder on the inside. But unlike these, all four axles of the class A were coupled.

Since Webb's successors Whale and Bowen Cooke wanted to clear the problems of the Webb compounds, they rebuilt the whole class into two-cylinder simple locomotives. So 15 became class C, 62 became class D and 34 became class C1. Most were again rebuilt to class G1 and some of these again to class G2a, with the last ones only being withdrawn in 1962.