MGWR Class L

The Midland Great Western Railway Class L, with its Lm and Ln variants, was a group of 0-6-0 goods locomotives of the Irish Midland Great Western Railway. After the railway merged into the Great Southern Railways in 1925 they generally kept to their former area, and they were noted for mixed passenger working on the Clifden and Ballaghaderreen branches. The first orders were placed with R. Stephenson in 1875, the order was increased to ten and all were delivered in 1876, with eighteen more built between 1886 and 1889. The original ten were later rebuilt as Class Lm, of which twenty-two were built between 1891 and 1895, and seven Class Ln were built in 1879 and 1880 using parts from earlier engines. Class L became GSR Class 594, or J19, and most survived until 1957, with two lasting until 1965.