The SECR F1 class was a series of 4-4-0 steam locomotives operated by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. These locomotives were rebuilt from older Stirling F class locomotives by Harry Wainwright between 1903 and 1919.
Numbering
Seventy-six locomotives were rebuilt, and 75 survived into Southern Railway (SR) ownership as of 1 January 1923. They were assigned random numbers ranging between 2 and 250. Nine locomotives survived into British Railways (BR) ownership in 1948. Numbers of these nine were:
Accidents and incidents
- In August 1926, a F1 class locomotive overran buffers at London Bridge and crashed into a brewery.
- On 19 August 1928 A148 was deliberately crashed into a lorry at Lasham, between Basingstoke and Alton, for the film 'the Wrecker'. The remains were cut up on site.
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