Power type Steam Build date 1913–1921 Configuration 0-8-0 | Designer Vincent Raven Total produced 120 | |
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Builder Darlington Works (70)
Armstrong Whitworth (50) | ||
The North Eastern Railway Class T2, classified as Class Q6 by the LNER, is a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotive designed for heavy freight. One-hundred-and-twenty were built at Darlington Works and Armstrong Whitworth between 1913 and 1921 to the design of Vincent Raven, based on the NER Class T and T1 (LNER Q5).
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Numbering
All passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were numbered 63340-63459.
Disposal
63372 was withdrawn in 1960 after an accident. General withdrawals were from 1963 to 1967.
Preservation
One, 2238 (LNER 1946 number 3395; BR 63395) has survived to preservation on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It is owned by the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) and was withdrawn from service in January 2017 to await boiler overhaul.
References
NER Class T2 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA