CR1 (Guangdong-Hankou Railway) 4-8-4 No. KF7 (607)
York, Yorkshire, UK 		Location: National Railway Museum
Status: Display
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Posted: Mar 7, 2024 @ 13:03:10 by Steve Frost, European Editor
Yes, but it was built for the Guangzhou–Hankou Railway as No.607 later becoming Chinese Government Railways and, after 1950 China Rail where locos of this type were classified as KF, it becoming KF 7 and is displayed as such.
Posted: Jan 26, 2005 @ 15:01:11 by Steve Frost
No, Vulcan Foundry at Newton le Willows was the builder.
Posted: Jan 26, 2005 @ 10:01:47 by Roderick Welch
Ex Chinese (national) railways. Built by North British?
Posted: Jun 28, 2004 @ 07:06:45 by Steve Frost
Just to add to the previous note: In the album picture, the loco on the left is a BR 9F - about the largest freight loco you could fit into the UK structure gauge without going articulated. A 2-10-0 (See 'Evening Star' at Steam Museum, Swindon) you can see the difference in height there is, and the different boiler size. For US enthusiasts, a 9F is about the same size as a D&RGW narrow gauge Mikado - one of the later series.
Posted: Apr 27, 2003 @ 06:04:10 by Steve Frost
Towering above the other locos in the National Railway Museum, this loco was a gift to the NRM from the Peoples' Republic of China in 1981. It represents 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 weren't bound by that restriction.