Midland Railway 480 Class

The Midland Railway 480 Class was a class of double framed 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed by Matthew Kirtley for the Midland Railway of Britain and built between 1863 and 1868. The design grew out of the railway's earlier 240 Class, with curved frames, and was in turn developed into the 700 Class, so it sits in the middle of a line of Kirtley goods engines. In total 237 were built, which made it a large and long-lived class by the standards of its day. Most of them passed into London, Midland and Scottish Railway ownership at the grouping of 1923, but only three survived the mass withdrawals of the late 1920s and early 1930s. After the Midland Railway's 1907 renumbering scheme the survivors carried the numbers 2398 to 2591 and 2672 to 2686, a total of 209 locomotives, because 28 had already been withdrawn between 1902 and 1906.