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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …