GER Class L77

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GER Class L77
LNER Class N7
Suburban train for Brentwood, GER section of the LNER (CJ Allen, Steel Highway, 1928).jpg
N7/1 on a suburban train for Brentwood, c.1927
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
Designer A. J. Hill
Builder
Build date1915–1928
Total produced134
Specifications
Configuration:
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 •  Whyte 0-6-2T
 •  UIC C1 h2t
Gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Driver dia.4 ft 10 in (1.473 m)
Trailing dia. 3 ft 9 in (1.143 m)
Wheelbase 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m)
Length34 ft 10 in (10.62 m) over buffers
Adhesive weight 49 long tons 4 cwt (110,200 lb or 50 t)
Loco weight61.8–64.85 long tons (62.79–65.89 t)
Fuel type Coal
Fuel capacity3 long tons 5 cwt (7,300 lb or 3.3 t)
Water cap.1,600 imperial gallons (7,270 L; 1,920 US gal)
Firebox:
 • Firegrate area		17.7 sq ft (1.64 m2)
Boiler pressure180 psi (1.24 MPa)
Heating surface1,291.7 sq ft (120.00 m2)
Cylinders Two, inside
Cylinder size 18 in × 24 in (457 mm × 610 mm)
Valve gear Walschaerts
Performance figures
Tractive effort 20,512 lbf (91.24 kN)
Career
Operators
Class
  • GER: L77
  • LNER: N7
Power classBR: 3MT
Number in class
  • 1 January 1923: 12
  • 1 January 1948: 134
Axle load classLNER/BR: Route availability 5
Withdrawn1957–1962
DispositionOne preserved, remainder scrapped

The GER Class L77, LNER Class N7, is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotives. They were designed by Alfred John Hill of the Great Eastern Railway and introduced in 1915. The design was perpetuated by Nigel Gresley of the LNER after the 1923 grouping. 134 were built and one example is preserved.

Contents

Overview

The N7s had superheaters and piston valves. They were unusual (for inside-cylinder locomotives) in having Walschaerts valve gear. They were, as London suburban locomotives, fitted with Westinghouse air brakes.

Some were fitted with condensing apparatus for working on the Metropolitan line and the East London Line but the condensing apparatus was removed between 1935 and 1938.

Numbering

The first 22 were allocated numbers in the 990–1011 range when ordered by the GER, but the last 10 did not emerge until the grouping. The LNER added 7000 to their GER numbers, and then built a further 112 locomotives between 1925 and 1928. In the 1946 renumbering scheme, they were renumbered 9600–9733, and upon nationalisation in 1948, British Railways added 60000 to their number (69600–69733).

Table of orders and numbers [1] [2]
YearOrderManufacturerQuantityGER Nos.LNER Nos.1946 Nos.Notes
1915L77Stratford Works21000–10018000–80019600–9601Renumbered 7978–7979 in 1944
1921K85Stratford Works101002–10118002–80119602–9611Renumbered 7980–7989 in 1944
1923–24K89Stratford Works10(990–999)7990–79999612–9621
1925–26—Gorton Works30—409, 421, 426, 456, 457, 460, 464, 471, 473, 475, 826–830, 832–834, 837, 838, 850–853, 865–868, 870, 8739622–9651Class N7/1
1925–26—Robert Stephenson & Co. 3897–391620—907, 912, 913, 916, 918, 919, 935, 940, 941, 947, 950, 952, 964, 966–968, 970, 971, 987, 9889652–9671Class N7/1
1927–28—Gorton Works10—2632–26419672–9681Class N7/2
1927—Wm. Beardmore & Co. 305–32420—2642–26619682–9701Class N7/2
1927–28—Doncaster Works 1669–1692, 1696–1699, 1701/02/04/0632—2600–26319702–9733Class N7/3

Sub-classes

N7/3 No. 69693 (with a round-top firebox) at St Margarets 4 April 1959 St Margarets station with Liverpool Street train geograph-2886847-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
N7/3 No. 69693 (with a round-top firebox) at St Margarets 4 April 1959
Table of withdrawals [3]
YearQuantity in
service at
start of year		Quantity
withdrawn		Locomotive numbersNotes
1957134169689
19581331069601/06–09/24/28/41/43/95
19591234169600/02–05/10/12–13/16/19/22–23/25–27/33–35/37–39/44/49–50/55/57/59–62/66–67/69/72/76,
69703/05/11/16–17/31
1960824569611/14–15/17/20/29–30/36/42/45/47–48/52/54/63–65/77/80–85/87–88/91/94/99,
69700–01/04/06/09/12/15/18–22/26–27/29/33
1961372869618/31/51/56/58/68/70/73–75/78–79/86/90/93/96/98,
69702/07–08/10/13–14/23–24/28/30/32
19629969621/32/40/46/53/71/92/97, 6972569621 preserved

Accidents and incidents

Preservation

The preserved N7/4 No. 69621 (LNER 7999) at Dereham, Mid-Norfolk Railway, 2009 LNER Class N7.jpg
The preserved N7/4 No. 69621 (LNER 7999) at Dereham, Mid-Norfolk Railway, 2009

One LNER example, No. 7999 (BR No. 69621) has been preserved and is currently on static display pending overhaul at the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel & Wakes Colne. It is owned by the East Anglian Railway Museum. It was the last engine built by the Great Eastern Railway's Stratford Works [5] in 1924 and was preserved in 1962. It was also named in honour of its designer A J Hill in 1989.

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References

  1. ↑ Aldrich 1969 , p. 106
  2. ↑ Boddy et al. 1977 , pp. 121–3
  3. ↑ Boddy et al. 1977, pp. 121–123.
  4. ↑ Trevena 1981, p. 36.
  5. ↑ Aldrich 1969, p. 148.

Sources

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Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "Scrapping the Old Iron Horses", British Pathé; newsreel showing several LNER Class N7's being broken up
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