The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class K classified as Class Y8 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a class of 0-4-0T steam locomotives designed for shunting. It was designed by Thomas W. Worsdell and five of these tiny engines were built in 1890. These were numbered 559-63.

The Y8 (NER K) 0-4-0 Shunters The Y8 was T.W. Worsdell 's last design, and was specifically designed for the docks at Hull. A total of five of these tiny engines were built in 1890. These were numbered 559-63. All five survived into LNER ownership.

The Great Northern Railway Class H2 and H3 (classified K1 and K2 by the LNER) was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive designed for mixed-traffic work. The class was created as a locomotive which could haul heavier goods trains at speeds of up to 40 mph.

The dock tanks were introduced by Worsdell on the NER in 1890 as the NER class K. The locomotives became the Y8 class under the LNER and were a smaller version of the Y7 class. They had smaller open backed cabs and marine type boilers with a …

Oct 12, 2022 · Followers of the historic transport developments at Beamish may recall that over ten years ago we toyed with the idea of constructing a North Eastern Railway K class (the rebuilt locomotives later being known as LNER Y8s), for use at Rowley Station.

The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class K classified as Class Y8 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a class of 0-4-0T steam locomotives designed for shunting. It was designed by Thomas W. Worsdell and five of these tiny engines were built in 1890. These were numbered 559-63.

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.

Jun 10, 2024 · LNER Train Seats K8 + K9 - facing each other? Hi - we're traveling from London to Edinburgh and I've never booked a train before. I believe I have this correct but can someone please confirm that seats K8 and K9 are facing each other and share a single table?

An Illustrated History of NER Locomotives. Ken Hoole published 1988 by OPC ISBN 0~86093-3237 This is the established work on locos of the NER and contains two very good plates of the class K (Y8) on pages 138/9

Feb 19, 2025 · This is my third and (probably) final fictional mogul, and it's another Atlantic to Mogul conversion, this time a GCR Class 8B (LNER C4) as a 2-6-0. In my AU, 30 of them, Nos 3970 - 3999, were built between 1906 and 1909, and they survived into LNER ownership.