The LNER A1 and A3 Gresley Pacifics Gresley is most famous for his LNER Pacifics. Although they reached their peak with the streamlined A4 s, this famous line of ' racehorses ' began with the A1 …

The U1 Garratt ('The Wath Banker') In 1910, the Great Central Railway initiated the design of a 4-cylinder Garratt. This was probably based on a pre-existing 0-8-0 design (LNER class Q4), but over …

The London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Encyclopedia The LNER was one of the " Big Four " Railway Companies formed during the 1923 Grouping Act in Britain. As such it barely lasted 25 …

Describes the Gresley 4-6-4 W1 'Hush-Hush' Locomotive The Gresley W1 4-6-4 "Hush-Hush" Locomotive The experimental Gresley W1 No. 10000 "Hush-Hush" was the only 4-6-4 tender …

The LNER Class D40 was made up of the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) Class V and Class F locomotives. Class V consisted of thirteen saturated locomotives built between 1899 and 1915, …

The Gresley D49 4-4-0 Hunt/Shire Class Immediately after Grouping in 1923, Gresley 's initial passenger locomotive priority was that of building up the A1 Pacific numbers for use on the fastest …

Locomotives This section of the LNER Encyclopedia describes all of the locomotive classes to serve with the LNER.

Describes the LNER 4-6-2 Pacific Locomotives LNER 4-6-2 Pacific Locomotives The LNER's Express Pacific designs were probably the most famous of the LNER locomotives. Even today, two of these …

The LNER would give them the classification of B12, and would find the combination of low axle loading and short wheelbase very useful attributes. As an evolution of the Claud Hamilton design, the driving …

The Holden E4 (GER T26) 2-4-0 Locomotives James Holden designed his T26 2-4-0s (LNER E4) in 1891, to meet the Great Eastern Railway's (GER) need for a mixed traffic locomotive. Intended to …