Although Wheatley had introduced a number of 0-6-0ST designs (J81 and J86) for local and branch passenger traffic on the North British Railway (NBR), Drummond found that the NBR required more. He solved this with his first NBR design, the Class R (LNER J82) 0-6-0T.

As with most companies, certain classes of locomotive from the North British Railway were commonly known by distinctive names or nicknames, rather than their official class designations. The following is a guide to these nicknames, with links …

Drummond D51 (NBR Class R) 4-4-0T Tank Engines. The D51s were the last passenger tank locomotives designed by Drummond for the North British Railway (NBR). A total of thirty locomotives were built in five batches between 1880 and 1884, including a …

The NBR S Class (LNER Class J37) was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by William Paton Reid for freight work on the North British Railway.

At the end of the Company’s independent existence in 1923, the NBR possessed over 1000 locomotives of all classes, from 0‑4‑0 shunting tank engines to the pride of the fleet, the 4‑4‑2 Atlantic passenger locomotives, which operated the key express services throughout the network.

May 22, 2023 · North British Railway R CLASS 0-6-0T Drummond’s first design for the NBR in 1875 was the small 0-6-0T “R” Class. A total of 25 were built, and all but one lasted into the LNER period although they had all been scrapped by 1926.

The class designations of ex-NBR engines which survived into LNER ownership have been retained, with the addition of leading zeros to give a standard four character code. The list is sub-divided into groups depending on whether the engine survived the grouping, was built by the NBR and withdrawn before Grouping, or had been absorbed by the NBR ...

Jun 6, 2008 · Two of these engines were built by Wheatley for use by the North British Railway (NBR) for short distance goods and mineral traffic. They were last mainline 0-4-0 locomotives to be built in Britain. Both were rebuilt by Holmes in 1902, and Reid in 1911.

For each Railway the short first section lists the view of locomotives in NBR or GNOSR livery which were not allocated LNER class codes and the rest of the catalogue lists locomotive classes in order of their LNER class designation. The entries give information in the following order:

The Wheatley J31 (NBR Class R) 0-6-0 Locomotives. Wheatley became the North British Railway's (NBR) Locomotive Superintendent in February 1867, and found a railway experiencing increasing prosperity. The NBR had also completed a series of amalgamations, and had greatly increased in size.