BR Standard Class 8

	BR Standard Class 8
	No.71000 "Duke of Gloucester" hammering across the Somerset Levels on the Torbay Express
Designer	Robert Riddles
Builder	BR Crewe Works
Build date	April 1954
Total production	1
Configuration	4-6-2 (Pacific)
UIC classification	2′C1′h3
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Leading wheel diameter	3 ft 0 in (0.914 m)
Driver diameter	6 ft 2 in (1.880 m)
Trailing wheel diameter	3 ft 3+1⁄2 in (1.003 m)
Length	67 ft 8 in (20.62 m)
Width	9 ft 0 in (2.74 m)
Height	13 ft 0+1⁄2 in (3.98 m)
Axle load	22.00 long tons (24.64 short tons; 22.35 t)
Weight on drivers	66.00 long tons (73.92 short tons; 67.06 t)
Locomotive weight	101.25 long tons (113.40 short tons; 102.87 t)
Tender weight	BR1E: 55.50 long tons (62.16 short tons; 56.39 t); BR1J: 53.70 long tons (60.14 short tons; 54.56 t)
Tender type	1954–1958: BR1E; 1958–1962: BR1J
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	10 long tons (11 short tons; 10 t)
Water capacity	BR1E: 4,725 imp gal (21,480 L; 5,674 US gal); BR1J: 4,325 imp gal (19,660 L; 5,194 US gal)
Boiler	BR13
Boiler pressure	250 psi (1.72 MPa)
Fire grate area	48.6 sq ft (4.52 m2)
Heating surface: Tubes and flues	2,264 sq ft (210.3 m2)
Heating surface: Firebox	226 sq ft (21.0 m2)
Superheater area	677 sq ft (62.9 m2)
Cylinders	Three
Cylinder size	18 in × 28 in (457 mm × 711 mm)
Tractive effort	39,080 lbf (173.84 kN)
Factor of adhesion	3.78
Power class	8P
Locale	London Midland Region
Withdrawn	December 1962
Disposition	Preserved

The BR Standard Class 8 is a single 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive made in 1954 for British Railways. It was named Duke of Gloucester. It was made to replace an engine that was destroyed in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail disaster [en] of 1952.

Hear 71000 at work
71000 passing St Andrew's Junction

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Gallery

Duke of Gloucester on an enthusiast railtour at Carmarthen railway station, 26 May 2007
71000 on the 9th of June 2007 approaching Shap at slow speed, taken just 5 minutes before the locomotive failed at Penrith. The locomotive was approaching the hill at slow speed and incapable of much traction.

71000 Duke of Gloucester on the East Lancashire Railway, 2009. Note the British Caprotti valve gear.
71000 at the terminus of the West Somerset Railway at Minehead, 2010
No 71000 Duke of Gloucester on the East Lancashire Railway, 2007

'British Railways standard 3 cylinder 4-6-2 express passenger steam locomotive No. 71000' (HMSO, British Transport Commission: London, 1957), p. [58] (Performance and efficiency tests, Bulletin No. 15)
'British Railways standard class "8" locomotives' (Engineer: 1954, 197, 81)
'B.R. class 8 4-6-2 locomotive No. 71000' (Locomotive, Railway Carriage and Wagon Review: 1954, 60)
'British Railways prototype class '8" express passenger locomotive' (Railway Magazine: 1954, 100)
Clarke, David: Riddles Class 6/7 Standard Pacifics (Locomotives in Detail volume 5) (Ian Allan: Hinckley, 2006) ISBN 0711031770
Herring, Peter: Classic British Steam Locomotives (Abbeydale Press: London, 2000) Section "BR Standard Class 8" ISBN 1861470576
Hopkins, Danny and Streeter, Tony: 'The Duke's Bad Day' (Steam Railway Magazine: 2007, 338)
Langston, Keith: Made in Crewe: 150 Years of Engineering Excellence (Mortons Media: Horncastle, 2006), ISBN 0955286808
Nock, O.S.: 'Performance and efficiency tests on B.R. class 8 locomotive' (Engineer: 1957, 204)