Tags: Locomotive.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway class 8 was a four-cylinder 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive designed by George Hughes in 1908. These original locomotives were described as “poor performers” . They suffered coal consumption as high as 100 pounds per mile plus mechanical problems causing very poor reliability. Around the time of their construction they were nicknamed Dreadnoughts on account of their large size after the then-new Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought.