#class 32

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 32, also nicknamed "Little Egberts", were a small class of five 0-8-2T steam locomotives built in 1908 intended for heavy shunting and banking duties. In the beginning of the 1900's several UK railroad companies introduced extremely large tank engines that were eight or even ten-coupled, with few carrying axles, so as to achieve the maximum adhesive weight over their driving wheels, Ivatt's class L1 for the Great Northern Railway (GNR) for example. The class 32's became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) when the L&YR was annexed by it and were given the power classification of 6F, being able to produce 34,052 lbf in traction effort. Between 1927 and 1929 all five engines were withdrawn from the LMS's rosters and subsequently scrapped with no survivors.