LCDR Europa class

The LCDR Europa class, also called the C class, was a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotives of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, designed by William Martley and introduced in 1873 for the heaviest express services between London and Dover. The railway had won the government contract for British mails to the Continent, and Martley obtained permission for four locomotives to be built by Sharp, Stewart and Company, named Europa, Asia, Africa and America. Two more were completed at the railway's own Longhedge works in 1876. The class worked Dover to Calais boat trains and services to Flushing, was re-boilered in 1890 to 1892, and was withdrawn and scrapped between December 1907 and April 1909, the four earliest having each run more than a million miles.