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The Class K design was not just small, it was diminutive, and as Class Y8 these were the smallest steam locomotives used by the LNER. They were fitted with steam and hand brakes only, never having vacuum brakes, and were unusual in having no bunker behind the cab for the coal, but rather having the small amount of coal required stored in a bin at the back of the footplate.
The original work of these locos was on Tyneside, at Hull docks, and within Darlington works, [2] but LNER no. 8088 was recorded working at Stratford works between 1943 and 1952.
The class was designed to address the lack of modern tank engines on the Central and Eastern sections of the LNER, replacing the six Metropolitan Railway K Class and to serve alongside the eighty Gresley V1/V3 tank engines. Under Edward Thompson, who sought to standardise on the large number of locomotives of the LNER, the L1 was designed to be ...
Gresley carried out stability tests on one of these locomotives and finding no trouble and without further delay produced his sophisticated V1 class suburban tank in 1930. This incorporated his 3-cylinder system and was the first example of all three cylinders and valve chests being incorporated into a single steel casting; [ 2 ] this ...
The NER Class O (LNER Class G5) was a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotives of the North Eastern Railway, [1] [2] designed by the company's Chief Engineer, Wilson Worsdell. [2] They all survived into British Railways ownership in 1948 and their BR numbers were 67240-67349.
The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class E, classified as Class J71 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), was a class of small 0-6-0T steam locomotive designed by T.W. Worsdell.
The N2 was the basis of the Hornby Dublo 0-6-2T tank engine, which was initially offered in the liveries of all the 'Big Four' companies – GWR green, LMS black, LNER black and SR olive green. Announced in the October 1938 issue of the Meccano Magazine , it retailed at 12s 6d with a clockwork mechanism, or 17s 6d for the three-rail electric ...
The V2s were the only major class of 2-6-2 tender locomotives used in Britain. Whilst 2-6-2T tank locomotives were common in the UK, the only other 2-6-2 tender locomotives were the unsuccessful experimental Midland Railway Paget locomotive of 1908, and the two examples of Gresley's LNER Class V4 of 1941.