The Glasgow and South Western Railway 279 class was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by Peter Drummond, of which 15 were built in 1913 by the North British Locomotive Company at its Queen's Park works. They were Drummond's first design for the railway and the heaviest 0-6-0 engines in Britain at the time they were built. Poor performance, with very slow uphill running and failures of the big ends, led the company to pay crews a bonus for completing trips without a failure. Renumbered as the 71 class in 1919, the engines passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 as power class 4F and were scrapped between 1930 and 1933.
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was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by Peter Drummond
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they were withdrawn and scrapped between 1930 and 1933 when their boilers became due for replacement
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