Ajax (locomotive)

Locomotives named Ajax have included:

• Liverpool and Manchester Railway 29 Ajax (1832), an 0-2-2
• Leicester and Swannington Railway Ajax (1838), an 0-4-2
• Great Western Railway Ajax (1838), a broad gauge Premier class 0-6-0; withdrawn 1871.
• Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn Ajax (Jones, Turner and Evans, 1841), one of a pair of 0-4-2 locomotive built for the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway, believed to be the oldest preserved steam locomotive on the European mainland; displayed in the Technisches Museum Wien
• London and South Western Railway 41 Ajax (Jones, Turner & Evans, 1841) a Hercules I class 0-4-2 goods locomotive
• Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 24 Ajax (1846), a 2-2-2 locomotive
• East Lancashire Railway 17 (1847), a Pegasus class
• South Staffordshire Railway 21 (1855)
• London and South Western Railway 41 Ajax (Nine Elms, 1855) a Hercules II class 2-4-0, withdrawn 1883
• London, Chatham and Dover Railway Ajax (1860) an 0-6-0, later numbered 144
• South Devon Railway Ajax, (Slaughter, Grüning & Co. 395 of 1860) one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class broad gauge 0-6-0ST locomotives, later GWR 2149; withdrawn 1884.^[1]
• Logan and Hemingway (civil engineering contractors) 5 Ajax (1864), later sold to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
• London and South Western Railway 41 Ajax (Nine Elms 124 of 1874) a Vesuvius II class 2-4-0 passenger locomotive
• London and North Western Railway 509 (Crewe Works 2799 of 1885), a Dreadnought class 2-2-2-0 passenger locomotive scrapped in 1904.^[2]
• Woolwich Arsenal Ajax, an 18-inch gauge 0-4-0T
• London and North Western Railway 639 Ajax (Crewe Works 4445 of 1904), an LNWR Precursor class 4-4-0, later LMS 5190; withdrawn 1928
• Ajax (Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. 1605 of 1918), an 0-6-T preserved on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as their No. 38
• London Midland and Scottish Railway 6139 Ajax (North British Locomotive Co. 23634 of 1927), an LMS Royal Scot Class 4-6-0 express locomotive, Renamed The Welch Regiment in 1936, rebuilt in 1946 and withdrawn 1962
• London Midland and Scottish Railway 5689 Ajax (Crewe Works 287 [second series] of 1936), an LMS Jubilee Class express locomotive, withdrawn 1964
• Chatham Dockyard Trust Ajax (Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 7042 of 1941), built for Chatham Dockyard. Preserved.
• British Rail D446, later 50046 (English Electric 3816 and Vulcan Foundry D1187 of 1968), one of the fifty class 50s, all of which were named after warships

References

1. Reed 1953, p. B38.
2. Baxter 1979, p. 195.

• Pike, Jim (2000). Locomotive Names: an illustrated dictionary. Stroud: Sutton Publishing Limited. p. 2. ISBN 0-7509-2284-2.
• Reed, P. J. T. (February 1953). White, D. E., ed. The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 2: Broad Gauge. Kenilworth: RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-32-0.