The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) J94 Class is a class of steam locomotive that was formed when 75 former "Austerity" 0-6-0STs were purchased by the LNER in 1946 from the War Department.

The J94s proved to be particularly useful on difficult branch lines. Their most famous workings of this nature, were on the Cromford and High Peak line in the BR’s London-Midland Region. In June 1956 three members of the class (68006, 68013 and 68030) were allocated to Middleton Top to work on the line.

Graham Farish and subsequently Bachmann have produced the "Austerity" as the LNER/BR J94 class for N gauge. DJmodels also produced J94 and austerity tanks in 00 gauge in a variety of liveries including BR as well as several industrial liveries. [4] .

It has now been given the number 68067. The J94 class locomotive that carried this number was WD 71474 that was scrapped in 1971. The locomotive is scheduled to spend 2018 at the Midland Railway at Butterley.

The J94 was produced by Graham Farish in a number of liveries including that of BR and the NCB. Bachmann have recently re-introduced this model as LNER No. 8051 and BR No. 68051. This also features a chassis which runs much better that previously.

One of only two genuine WD Austerity 0-6-0ST’s that were built for the London & North Eastern Railway as Class J94 to survive into preservation out of 75 locomotives that were sold to the LNER and classified as J94.

The LNER 'J' 0-6-0 Locomotives: J71 - J94. Due to the large numbers of different 0-6-0 classes, they have been split into four indexes: The 0-6-0 Tender Locomotive Classes J1 - J20, can be found here. The 0-6-0 Tender Locomotive Classes J21 - J41, can be found here. The 0-6-0 Tank & Diesel Locomotive Classes J45 - J70, can be found here

Contrary to popular belief, 68077 is one of only two ex-BR J94 in preservation. The other 68078, is under restoration at a private site in Sellindge, Kent. Numerous industrial Austerities have been preserved and run in fictitious LNER and BR liveries but they are not officially a J94!

LNER/BR J94 Hunslet Built between 1943 and 1946 these 0-6-0ST locomotives were built for the Ministry of Supply. After the war the LNER bought 75 of them and classified them as class J94.

By this time it appears to have assumed the identity of BR J94 class locomotive 68067 even though it was never owned by BR (the real 68067 was built by Hudswell Clarke and was scrapped in 1972). The locomotive then moved to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway where restoration work was undertaken.