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NER Class W1

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Power type
  
Steam

Build date
  
1907–1908

Rebuild date
  
1914–1917

Builder
  
Gateshead Works

Total produced
  
10

Designer
  
Wilson Worsdell / Vincent Raven

The NER Class W1 was a 4-6-2T steam locomotive of the North Eastern Railway. The class was introduced in 1914 as a rebuild of Wilson Worsdell's NER Class W 4-6-0T (introduced 1907). At the 1923 Grouping, they all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway, who placed them in their Class A6.

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Modifications

Seven of the locomotives were fitted with superheaters between 1937 and 1944.

British Railways

One locomotive was withdrawn in 1947 but the remaining nine passed to British Railways in 1948 and were numbered as follows:

  • Superheated: 69791-69793 and 69796-69797
  • Non-superheated: 69794-69795 and 69798
  • Withdrawal

    One locomotive was withdrawn in 1947 and the others had all been withdrawn by the end of 1951. None are preserved.

    References

    NER Class W1 Wikipedia