NER Class T2
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The North Eastern Railway Class T2, classified as Class Q6 by the LNER, is a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotive designed for heavy freight. One-hundred-and-twenty were built at Darlington Works and Armstrong Whitworth between 1913 and 1921 to the design of Vincent Raven, based on the NER Class T and T1 (LNER Q5).
Numbering
All passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were numbered 63340-63459.
Disposal
63372 was withdrawn in 1960 after an accident. General withdrawals were from 1963 to 1967.
Preservation
One, 2238 (LNER 1946 number 3395; BR 63395) has survived to preservation on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It is owned by the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) and re-entered service after a major overhaul in 2007.
Gallery
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LNER Q6 at Darlington Works after overhaul in March 1959
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63407 at West Hartlepool shed, June 1967
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63395 at Sunderland shed, June 1967
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No. 63395 on the preserved Great Central Railway
References
- Baxter, Bertram (1986). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 5A: North Eastern Railway, Hull and Barnsley Railway. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. ISBN 0-903485-54-0.
- Template:RCTS-LocosLNER-6C
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to NER Class T2 / LNER Class Q6.
- LNER encyclopedia
- Railuk database
- North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group
- North Yorkshire Moors Railway
- North Eastern Railway Class T2 at Eisenbahn in Großbritannien Template:De icon