CR1 (Guangdong-Hankou Railway) 4-8-4 No. KF1 006
Beijing, Hebei, China 		Location: Beijing Railway Museum
Status: Display
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Posted: Oct 9, 2023 @ 11:10:07 by Eddie Wearing
Built for the Guangdong-Hankou Railway. Probably VF 4673/1935
Posted: Feb 11, 2011 @ 13:02:19 by Steve Frost
This is a good representative of a UK export loco, and shows what the UK lcomotive builders could supply to other countries. Built by the Vulcan Foundary, Newton le Willows, it follows American practice in a number of ways. Its wheel arrangement, as a 4-8-4, was a favourite of US roads, but it also has bar frames, electric lighting and a mechanical stoker.

Just goes to show how restricting the British loading gauge is, and what UK builders could produce when they were not bound by that restriction. At least one other KF1 survives, No 607 in the UKs National Railway Museum at York. This loco was a gift to the NRM from the Peoples Republic of China to the museum in 1981.