LCDR Acis class

The LCDR Acis class was a class of fourteen 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed by William Martley for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to haul goods trains. In 1860 the railway board decided on forty new locomotives, and the fifteen goods engines intended for the class were ordered from two firms: eight from Robert Stephenson and Company in July 1860 at 3,320 pounds each, and seven from Sharp, Stewart and Company in August, an order later cut to six. Like the Echo and Tiger classes, they were equipped with the Cudworth coal-burning firebox and were delivered between September 1861 and December 1862. They were distinguished by name at first, took the class letter H and the numbers 113 to 126 in November 1875, and passed to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899 as numbers 572 to 585. Withdrawal took place between June 1903 and December 1908.