LCDR R class

The LCDR R class was a class of 0-4-4T locomotives on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, designed by William Kirtley as a development of his earlier A2 class when more suburban and stopping passenger engines were wanted in 1890. Eighteen were built by Sharp, Stewart and Company in 1891, numbered 199 to 216, and originally classified A3 until the class letter R was vacated by the withdrawal of the last Ruby class engine. The whole class was fitted with condensing apparatus for working on the Widened Lines. Number 207, eventually 31666, is notable as the last former LCDR locomotive to be withdrawn from service, and the class was withdrawn between 1949 and 1955.