The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) produced several classes of locomotive, mostly to the designs of Nigel Gresley, characterised by a three-cylinder layout with a parallel boiler and round-topped firebox. It produced the most famous locomotive of its day, 4468 'Mallard', the holder of the world steam locomotive speed record. It also built the world-famous 4472 'Flying Scotsman'. However, its locomotive inheritance was much greater than just the 'A4 Class', it also produced highly successful mixed-traffic and freight designs.
Including the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1B | 2-4-0 | 5 | 1868 | (none) | ||
4 | 0-4-0ST | 2 | Manning Wardle | 1883 | Y2 | Manning Wardle Class H |
6B | 4-4-0 | 27 | 1877–80 | D12 | ||
172 | 0-6-0 | 1 | 1861 | (none) | acquired from the South Yorkshire Railway | |
15 | 2-4-0 | 4 | 1865 | (none) | Built for the Sardinian Railway | |
6C | 0-6-0 | 62 | Gorton Works | 1880–85 | J12 | |
12 | 2-4-0 | 10 | Gorton Works | 1873 | (none) | |
12A | 2-4-0 | 28 | 1875–85 | (none) | ||
12AT | 2-4-0T | 8 | Gorton Works | 1881 | E8 | |
12AM | 2-4-0T | 6 | Gorton Works | 1881 | (none) | rebuild from 12AT |
7 | 0-6-0T | 6 | 1885 | (none) | ||
23 | 0-6-0 | 50 | 1861-1867 | (none) | ||
4 | 0-6-0ST | 1 | Manning Wardle | 1873 | J69/1 | Acquired 1876 |
18 | 0-6-0 | 68 | 1869–73 | (none) | Twenty rebuilt as tank engine 1902–05 | |
18 Converted | 0-6-0ST | 20 | 1869–71 | J58 | Rebuilt from tender engines 1902–05 | |
18A | 0-6-0 | 7 | Gorton Works | 1871 | (none) | |
18T | 0-6-0ST | 41 | 1871–81 | J59 | ||
14 | 2-2-2 | 12 | 1882-1883 | (none) |
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 4-4-0 | 25 | Kitson & Co. (13) Gorton Works (12) |
1887–1892 | D7 | |
3 | 2-4-2T | 39 | 1889–1892 | F1 | ||
6AI | 0-6-0 | 12 | 1888 | J8 | ||
6D | 2-4-0 | 3 | Gorton Works | 1887 | E2 | |
6DB | 4-4-0 | 3 | Gorton Works | 1888 | D8 | |
9 | 0-6-0 | 6 | Gorton Works | 1888–89 | J13 | |
9A | 0-6-2T | 55 | 1889–92 | N4 | ||
9B & 9E | 0-6-0 | 31 | Neilson & Co. (25) ? (6) |
1891–95 | J9 | |
9C & 9F | 0-6-2T | 129 | 1891–1901 | N5 | Includes two acquired with Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway | |
9D, 9H & 9M | 0-6-0 | 124 | 1892–1902 | J10 |
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2A | 4-4-0 | 6 | Gorton Works | 1887–1892 | D7 | |
5 | 0-6-0ST | 12 | Gorton Works | 1897 | J62 | |
9G | 2-4-2T | 10 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1896 | F2 | |
11 | 4-4-0 | 6 | Gorton Works | 1894–95 | D5 | |
11A | 4-4-0 | 33 | Gorton Works (13) Beyer, Peacock & Co. (20) |
1897–99 | D6 | |
15 | 2-6-0 | 20 | Baldwin Locomotive Works | 1899 | (none) | |
13 | 4-2-2 | 6 | 1900 | X4 |
see John G. Robinson
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | 1946 LNER nos. | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8C | 4-6-0 | 2 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1903–04 | B1 | 1479–80 | later LNER Class B18 |
1 | 4-6-0 | 6 | Gorton Works | 1912–13 | B2 | 1490–93 | "Sir Sam Fay" class; later LNER Class B19 |
9P | 4-6-0 | 6 | Gorton Works | 1917–20 | B3 | 1494–99 | "Lord Faringdon" class |
8F | 4-6-0 | 10 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1906 | B4 | 1481–89 | "Immingham" class |
8 | 4-6-0 | 14 | Neilson & Co. (6) Beyer, Peacock & Co. (8) |
1902–04 | B5 | 1678–90 | "Fish Engines" |
8N | 4-6-0 | 3 | Gorton Works | 1918–21 | B6 | 1346–48 | |
9Q | 4-6-0 | 38 | Gorton Works (23) Vulcan Foundry (10) Beyer, Peacock & Co. (5) |
1921–23 | B7 | 1360–97 | Known as both the "Black Pigs" and the "Colliers' Friends" |
1A | 4-6-0 | 11 | Gorton Works | 1913–15 | B8 | 1349–59 | "Glenalmond" class |
8G | 4-6-0 | 10 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1906 | B9 | 1469–78 | |
8B/8J | 4-4-2 | 27 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. (7) North British Loco. Co. (12) Gorton Works (8) |
1903–06 | C4 | 2900–25 | |
8D/8E | 4-4-2 | 4 | Gorton Works | 1905–06 | C5 | 2895–98 | [1] Three-cylinder compounds |
11B/11C/11D | 4-4-0 | 40 | Sharp, Stewart & Co. (30) Vulcan Foundry (10) |
1901–04 | D9 | 2300–33 | |
11E | 4-4-0 | 10 | Gorton Works | 1913 | D10 | 2650–59 | "Director" class |
11F | 4-4-0 | 35 | Armstrong Whitworth (12) Gorton Works (11) Kitson & Co. (12) |
1919–24 | D11 | 2660–94 | "Improved Director" class |
9J | 0-6-0 | 174 | Neilson, Reid & Co. (49) Beyer, Peacock & Co. (25) Gorton Works (70) Vulcan Foundry (15) Yorkshire Engine Co. (15) |
1901–10 | J11 | 4280–4453 | |
8K | 2-8-0 | 126 | Gorton Works (56) Kitson & Co. (20) North British Loco. Co. (50) |
1911–14 | O4 | 3570–3900 | Another 521 built for the government, of which 276 later came to the LNER. 58 converted to “O1” between 1944 and 1949 |
8M | 2-8-0 | 19 | Gorton Works | 1918–21 | O5 | 3902–3920 | All eventually converted to "O4" |
8A | 0-8-0 | 89 | Gorton Works (35) Kitson & Co. (51) Neilson, Reid & Co. (3) |
1902–11 | Q4 | 3200–43, 9925–37 | 13 converted to tanks by LNER (class Q1) 1942–45 |
9N | 4-6-2T | 21 | Gorton Works | 1911–17 | A5 | 9800–20 | 24 more built by LNER 1923–26 |
9K | 4-4-2T | 40 | Gorton Works (28) Vulcan Foundry (12) |
1903–05 | C13 | 7400–39 | |
9L | 4-4-2T | 12 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1907 | C14 | 7440–51 | |
4 | 0-6-0ST | 1 | Hudswell Clarke | 1909 | J69/1 | — | [2] Acquired 1911 |
5A | 0-6-0T | 7 | Gorton Works | 1906–14 | J63 | 8204–10 | [3] |
1B | 2-6-4T | 20 | Gorton Works | 1914–17 | L1 | 9050–69 | [4] LNER class L3 from 1945; first standard gauge locomotive of its wheel arrangement in Britain |
8H | 0-8-4T | 4 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1907–08 | S1 | 9900–05 | [2] Two more built by LNER in 1932 |
There were also 3 steam rail cars built in 1904–1905. These were withdrawn in 1914.
The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway was absorbed by the Great Central Railway on 1 January 1907. All LD&ECR locomotives were built by Kitson & Co.
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | 0-6-2T | 18 | 1895–1900 | N6 | [5] LDEC Nos. 1–8, 19–28. Five more that had been ordered were sold by Kitson's to the Hull and Barnsley Railway |
B | 0-6-0T | 4 | 1897 | J60 | [6] LDEC Nos. 9–12 |
C | 0-4-4T | 6 | 1897–1898 | G3 | [7] LDEC Nos. 13–18 |
D | 0-6-4T | 9 | 1904–06 | M1 | [8] LDEC Nos. 29–34, A1–A3; GCR 1148–1153, 1145–47 |
In 1923 the Great North of Scotland Railway passed on a total of 122 locomotives, 100 4-4-0 tender locomotives and 22 tank engines, all capable of being used on either passenger or goods trains, to the LNER.[9]
Locomotive superintendent | GNoSR Class |
LNER class |
Quantity Built |
Passed to LNER | Wheel arrangement |
Manufacturer | Date introduced | Date withdrawn | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Cowan (1857–83) |
K | D47/2 | 6 | 3 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1866 | 1921–25 | [10] | [1] |
L | D47/1 | 6 | 6 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1876 | 1924–26 | [11] | [2] | |
M | D45 | 9 | 9 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1878 | 1925–32 | [11] | [3] | |
C | D39 | 3 | 3 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1879 | 1925–27 | [11] | [4] | |
James Manson (1883–90) |
A | D44 | 6 | 6 | 4-4-0 | Kitson & Co. | 1884 | 1924–32 | [12] | [5] |
G | D48 | 3 | 3 | 4-4-0 | Kitson & Co. | 1885 | 1928–34 | [12] | [6] | |
D | J90 | 6 | 6 | 0-6-0T | Kitson & Co. | 1884 | 1932–36 | [13] | [7] | |
E | J91 | 3 | 3 | 0-6-0T | Kitson & Co. | 1885 | 1931–34 | [13] | [8] | |
N | D46 | 2 | 2 | 4-4-0 | GNSR Kittybrewster | 1887 | 1932–36 | [14] | [9] | |
O | D42 | 9 | 9 | 4-4-0 | Kitson & Co. | 1888 | 1935–46 | [15] | [10] | |
P | D43 | 3 | 3 | 4-4-0 | R. Stephenson & Co. | 1890 | 1936–38 | [16] | [11] | |
Q | D38 | 3 | 3 | 4-4-0 | R. Stephenson & Co. | 1890 | 1931–38 | [16] | [12] | |
James Johnson (1890–94) |
R | G10 | 9 | 9 | 0-4-4T | Neilson & Co. | 1893 | 1937–47 | [17] | [13] |
S | D41 | 6 | 6 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1893 | 1947– | [18] | [14] | |
William Pickersgill (1894–1914) |
T | D41 | 26 | 26 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1895–98 | 1946– | [19] | [15] |
V | D40 | 5 | 13 | 4-4-0 | Neilson & Co. | 1899–1900 | 1946– | Ten were ordered, five sold to the SE&CR[20] | [16] | |
V | D40 | 8 | 4-4-0 | GNSR Inverurie | 1910–15 | 1947– | [21] | [17] | ||
Thomas E. Heywood (1914–23) |
Y | Z5 | 2 | 2 | 0-4-2T | Manning Wardle | 1915 | [22] | [18] | |
X | Z5, later Z4 | 2 | 2 | 0-4-2T | Manning Wardle | 1915 | [22] | [19] | ||
F | D40 | 6 | 8 | 4-4-0 | North British Loco. Co. | 1920 | Named[23] | [20] | ||
F | D40 | 2 | 4-4-0 | GNSR Inverurie | 1921 | Named[23] | [21] |
From its formal establishment in 1885 to the time that it was taken over by the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1922, the CME of the H&BR was Matthew Stirling, who, like his father and uncle, built locomotives with domeless boilers.
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | 0-6-0T | 12 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1884 | — | |
B | 0-6-0 | 20 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1884 | — | |
C | 2-4-0 | 10 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1885 | — | |
K | 0-4-0WT | 6 | Kitson & Co. | 1886–89 | — | |
B | 0-6-0 | 55 | Kitson & Co. (36) Vulcan Foundry (4) Yorkshire Engine Co. (15) |
1889–1908 | J23 | |
G2 | 0-6-0T | 3 | R. Stephenson & Co. | 1892 | J80 | |
F1 | 0-6-2T | 5 | Kitson & Co. | 1900 | N11 | Ordered by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway |
F2 | 0-6-2T | 9 | Kitson & Co. | 1901 | N12 | |
G3 | 0-6-0T | 16 | Yorkshire Engine Co. (6) Kitson & Co. (10) |
1901–08 | J75 | |
A | 0-8-0 | 15 | Yorkshire Engine Co. | 1907 | Q10 | |
J | 4-4-0 | 5 | Kitson & Co. | 1910 | D24 | |
L1 | 0-6-0 | 10 | Kitson & Co. | 1911–12 | J28 | |
L | 0-6-0 | 5 | Yorkshire Engine Co. | 1914 | J28 | |
LS | 0-6-0 | 5 | Kitson & Co. | 1915 | J28 | |
F3 | 0-6-2T | 10 | Hawthorn Leslie | 1913–14 | N13 |
Three classes (the G, H and K Classes) were taken into LNER stock on 1 November 1937. The other former Metropolitan locomotives were retained by London Transport, which had acquired all of them at its formation on 1 July 1933.[24]
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | 4-4-0T | 40 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1864–70 | — | |
B | 4-4-0T | 20 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1879–85 | — | |
C | 0-4-4T | 4 | Neilson & Co. | 1891 | — | |
D | 2-4-0T | 6 | Sharp, Stewart & Co. | 1915 | — | |
E | 0-4-4T | 7 | Hawthorne Leslie (4), Neasden Works (3) |
1896–1901 | — | |
F | 0-6-2T | 4 | Yorkshire Engine Co. | 1915 | — | |
G | 0-6-4T | 4 | Yorkshire Engine Co. | 1915 | M2 | |
H | 4-4-4T | 8 | Kerr, Stuart & Co. | 1920–21 | H2 | |
K | 2-6-4T | 6 | Armstrong Whitworth | 1925 | L2 | Similar to the SECR K Class; designed by R.E.L. Maunsell |
M&GN locomotives were taken into LNER stock on 1 October 1936.
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | LNER Class | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M&GN Class A | 4-4-2T | 3 | Melton Constable Works | 1904–1910 | C17 | M&GN Nos. 41, 20, 9 |
M&GN Class C | 4-4-0 | 40 | Sharp, Stewart & Co. (33) Beyer, Peacock & Co. (7) |
1894–1899 | D52/D53/D54 | LNER class based on firebox variations |
M&GN Class D | 0-6-0 | 16 | Neilson & Co. (8) Kitson & Co. (8) |
1896-1899 | J40/J41 | J41 was a rebuilt D Class while J40 was not rebuilt |
M&GN Shunting Class | 0-6-0T | 9 | Melton Constable Works | 1897–1905 | J93 |
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | Post-1946 numbers |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1 | 4-6-2 | 50 | Doncaster Works North British Loco. Co. |
1922–25 | 44–83, 103–112 | Rebuilt as A3's |
A3 | 4-6-2 | 27 | Doncaster Works | 1928–35 | 35–43, 84–101 | |
A4 | 4-6-2 | 35 | Doncaster Works | 1935–38 | 1–34 | Streamlined |
B17 | 4-6-0 | 73 | North British Loco. Co. (10) Darlington Works (52) R. Stephenson & Co. (11) |
1928–37 | 1600–1672 | [25]Two were streamlined in "A4" style |
D49 | 4-4-0 | 76 | Darlington Works | 1927–35 | 2700–2775 | Named after counties & hunts. |
J38 | 0-6-0 | 35 | Darlington Works | 1926 | 5900–5934 | |
J39 | 0-6-0 | 289 | Darlington Works (261) Beyer, Peacock & Co. (28) |
1926–41 | 4700–4988 | |
K4 | 2-6-0 | 6 | Darlington Works | 1937–39 | 1993–1998 | One later rebuilt by Thompson as K1 |
P1 | 2-8-2 | 2 | Doncaster Works | 1925 | — | |
P2 | 2-8-2 | 6 | Doncaster Works | 1934–36 | 501–506 | later streamlined – all rebuilt as A2/2 during 1943–44 |
U1 | 2-8-0+0-8-2 | 1 | Beyer, Peacock & Co. | 1925 | 9999 | Garratt – for banking on Worsborough incline |
V1 | 2-6-2T | 82 | Doncaster Works | 1930–39 | 7600–7681 | 63 later rebuilt as V3 |
V2 | 2-6-2 | 184 | Doncaster Works Darlington Works |
1936–44 | 800–983 | Three-cylinder; four rebuilt as A2/2 4-6-2's |
V3 | 2-6-2T | 10 | Doncaster Works | 1939-40 | 7682–7691 | +63 rebuilds of V1 – larger boiler development of V1 |
V4 | 2-6-2 | 2 | Doncaster Works | 1941 | 1700–1701 | Three-cylinder |
W1 | 4-6-4 | 1 | Darlington Works | 1929 | 10000 | experimental high pressure locomotive, later rebuilt in "A4" style. |
Image | Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | Post 1946 numbers |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1/1 | 4-6-2 | 1 | Doncaster Works | 1945 | 113 | Rebuild of LNER Gresley Class A1 Great Northern | |
A2/2 | 4-6-2 | 6 | Doncaster Works | 1943-44 | 501–506 | Rebuilds of Gresley P2 2-8-2 | |
A2/1 | 4-6-2 | 4 | Darlington Works | 1944 | 507–510 | Derived from Gresley V2 2-6-2 design. | |
A2/3 | 4-6-2 | 15 | Doncaster Works | 1946–47 | 500, 511–524 | ||
B1 | 4-6-0 | 274 | Darlington Works North British Loco. Co. Vulcan Foundry |
1942–52 | 1000–1273 | [26]Another 136 (Nos.61274–61409) built by BR | |
B2 | 4-6-0 | 9 | Doncaster Works | 1945–49 | [27] Rebuilds of Gresley Class B17 | ||
K1 | 2-6-0 | 1 | Darlington Works | 1945 | 1997 | Rebuild of Gresley Class K4 Mogul | |
K5 | 2-6-0 | 1 | Doncaster Works | 1945 | 1841 | Rebuild of Gresley Class K3 Mogul | |
O1 | 2-8-0 | 58 | Gorton Works | 1944 | Rebuilds of Robinson Class O4 | ||
L1 | 2-6-4T | 1 | Darlington Works | 1945 | 7701 | Another 99 built by BR 1949–50 | |
Q1 | 0-8-0T | 13 | Gorton Works | 1942–45 | 9925–9937 | Rebuilds of Robinson Class Q4 Tender Engines |
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | Number | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A2 | 4-6-2 | 1 | Doncaster Works | 1947 | 525 | 14 more built by BR 1948 |
Another A1, "Tornado" has been built by subscription among LNER (and other) locomotive enthusiasts, and came into service in 2008. In total it cost £3 million. Again under the chairmanship of Mark Allatt, the team is (2014) now raising funds most successfully to build another Gresley P2 2-8-2 of the "Cock O'the North" Class, to be called "Prince of Wales". Both new steam locomotives are the product of a restored railway works in Darlington.
British Railways continued to build LNER designs (the B1 and L1 classes in particular) immediately after Nationalisation. Remarkably, it even built a new series of shunting locomotives (J72 class) to a pre-Grouping design (of the North Eastern Railway). However, it was to be the Eastern Region that took the first of BR's new Standard locomotives, 70000 'Britannia', for its Great Eastern Main Line workings to Norwich in 1951.
BR built 396 locomotives to ex-LNER designs. One of these, the J72 Class was a North Eastern Railway design dating from 1898.
Class | Wheel arrangement |
Quantity | Manufacturer | Date | Numbers | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peppercorn A1 | 4-6-2 | 49 | Doncaster Works (26) Darlington Works (23) |
1948-49 | 60114–162 | |
Peppercorn A2 | 4-6-2 | 14 | Doncaster Works | 1948 | 60526–539 | |
Thompson B1 | 4-6-0 | 136 | North British Loco. Co.(106) Gorton Works (10) Darlington Works (20) |
1948–52 | 61273–409 | [26] |
J72 | 0-6-0T | 28 | Darlington Works | 1949–51 | 69001–28 | NER Class E1 |
Thompson/Peppercorn K1 | 2-6-0 | 70 | North British Loco. Co. | 1949–50 | 62001–70 | |
Thompson L1 | 2-6-4T | 99 | Darlington Works (29) North British Loco. Co. (35) R. Stephenson & Hawthorns (35) |
1948–50 | 67702–800 |
Withdrawal of ex-LNER locomotives took place throughout the 1960s, with some of the once high-profile 'A4 Class' locomotives ending their lives on heavy freight trains in Scotland; a far cry from the glamorous express workings of the late 1930s.
Several of the many LNER locomotives have been preserved. (Numbers given are those currently carried: many locomotives have carried a range of numbers during their active and preserved careers).
† denotes name given only in preservation.