In 1924, the ex-North Eastern Railway (NER) shed at Starbeck received a C2 to haul the Ripon to Doncaster leg of the Ripon to London service. In the following year, the NE area would receive more C2s for working between Leeds, Hull, Scarborough, and Newcastle.

The Great Northern Railway class C2 locomotives is a scrapped class of 4-4-2 tank locomotives built by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) between 1898 and 1907. They were used on local and commuter passenger trains in Yorkshire and North London. They …

After the 1923 grouping this class became London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class C2, whereas the large boiler engines were LNER Class C1. GNR's own Class C2 Atlantic tank locomotives became LNER Class C12.

The LNER 4-4-2 Atlantic Locomotives. Britain's first Atlantic appeared on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) in 1898 as an enlargement of the ubiquitous 4-4-0 for express work, building 116 examples of various designs.

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, 4-4-2 represents a configuration of a four-wheeled leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels supporting part of the weight of the boiler and firebox.

The C2 class were initially distributed between the GNR’s main line sheds. In 1905, they were allocated to Kings Cross, Peterborough, Grantham, and Doncaster sheds. Their early duties consisted of the heavier expresses on the GNR main line from London to York.

The Ivatt C12 (GNR C2) Atlantic Tank Engines. One of the first locomotive types introduced by Ivatt, the first batch of ten GNR C2 (LNER C12) locomotives were built in 1898 for hauling suburban services in the West Riding.

Jul 5, 2023 · In this week’s Sole Survivor will we look back on the history of the GNR C1 small boiler (London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) C2 Class), GNR C1 large boiler (LNER C1 Class) and last member of each class preserved.

LNER AND AFTERWARDS. LNER Class C12 was intact at Grouping: 60 in service. The engines had 3000 added to their numbers (about 1924). Nos. 4017, 4512/15/16/22/26/32/33 were withdrawn in 1937, followed by No. 4550 in 1938 and No. 4535 in 1939. The remainder survived to be renumbered 7350-99 (about 1946).

To meet the requirements for more engine power for trains in the Metropolitan district twenty new locomotives were built. These were tank engines of the ten-wheel type introduced at the beginning of 1898, slightly modified to render them specially suitable for running through the tunnels of the “Underground”.