NZR BC class

NZR B^C class

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Builder	Baldwin Locomotive Works
Serial number	19796
Build date	1901
Total produced	1

Specifications
Configuration	2-8-2
UIC class	1'D1'
Gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Driver dia.	43 in (1.092 m)
Length	55 ft 7 in (16.94 m)
Total weight	71.4 long tons (72.5 t; 80.0 short tons)
Fuel type	Coal
Fuel capacity	4.0 long tons (4.1 t; 4.5 short tons)
Water cap	1,660 imperial gallons (7,500 l; 1,990 US gal)
Firebox: • Firegrate area	25 sq ft (2.3 m²)
Boiler pressure	200 lbf/in² (1.38 MPa)
Heating surface	1,477 sq ft (137.2 m²)
Cylinders	4 (2 HP, 2 LP)
Cylinder size	HP 11.5 in × 20 in (292 mm × 508 mm) LP 19 in × 20 in (483 mm × 508 mm)

Performance figures
Tractive effort	Template:Co insertednvert

Career
Operators	Wellington and Manawatu Railway, New Zealand Government Railways
Numbers	WMR 17, NZR 463
Withdrawn	March 1927

The B^C class comprised a single steam locomotive that operated on New Zealand's national rail network. Built for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway (WMR) and classified simply as No. 17, it passed into the ownership of the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) when the government purchased the WMR in December 1908, and it was then that it acquired the B^C classification as B^C 463.

It was ordered in 1901 by the WMR from the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It entered service on 10 June 1902 and was at the time the most powerful locomotive to operate in the country, and it was the only 2-8-2 "Mikado" to run in New Zealand.

The locomotive was designed to haul trains on the WMR's steep main line between Wellington and Paekakariki, and it proved capable of hauling a 280-ton freight train up the steep grades. It was a Vauclain compound, and its trailing truck bore similarities to the Q class, the world's first 4-6-2 "Pacific" type then under construction by Baldwin for NZR.

The locomotive worked the original steeply graded former WMR and then (when sold to...) NZR mainline out of Wellington its entire life. It operated for nearly two decades in NZR's ownership until it was withdrawn on 31 March 1927 along with fellow surviving WMR locomotives due to NZR adopting a swift (rapid) locomotive standardisation plan.

Rail vehicles of New Zealand

Diesel locomotives

Diesel Multiple Units

Electric locomotives

1500 V DC	E^A (later EO of 1968) E^C E^D E^O of 1923 E^W

25 kV AC	EF

Battery	E E^B

Electric Multiple Units

1500 V DC (Wellington)	"English Electric" D^M (inc. D trailers) "Ganz Mavag" EM (inc. ET trailers) "Matangi" FP (inc. FT trailers)

25 kV AC (Auckland)	AM (inc. AMP, AMT, AMA)

Railcars

RM class	88 seater (also known as Fiats or twinsets) Clayton steam railcar Edison battery-electric railcar Midland railcar Leyland experimental petrol railcar MacEwan-Pratt petrol railcar Model T Ford railcar Sentinel-Cammell steam railcar Silver Fern Standard Thomas Transmission Vulcan Wairarapa Westinghouse

Others	A 88 Buckhurst petrol carriage

Steam locomotives

A of 1873
A of 1906 (inc. A^D)
A^A
A^B
B of 1874
B of 1899
B^A
B^B
B^C
C of 1873
C of 1930
D of 1874
D of 1929
E of 1872 & 1875
E of 1906
F
F^A (inc. F^B)
G of 1874
G Garratt of 1928 (inc. Pacific rebuild)
H
J of 1874
J of 1939
J^A
J^B
K of 1877
K of 1932
K^A
K^B
L
L^A
M
N
N^A
N^C
O
O^A
O^B
O^C
P of 1876
P of 1885
Q of 1878
Q of 1901
R
S
T
U
U^A
U^B
U^C
U^D
V
W
W^A
W^AB
W^B
W^D
W^E
W^F
W^G
W^H
W^J
W^S
W^W
X
Y

Locomotive hauled carriages

See also: Locomotives of New Zealand.

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