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The NER Class V was a class of twenty steam locomotives of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement. They were designed by Wilson Worsdell for the North Eastern Railway (NER) as express passenger locomotives.
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The NER Class V was a class of twenty steam locomotives of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement. They were designed by Wilson Worsdell for the North Eastern Railway (NER) as express passenger locomotives.
In the early part of the twentieth century, the main express passenger services of the NER were mostly being hauled by 4-4-0 locomotives. The newest of these were Class R, thirty of which were built between 1899 and 1901; they were supplemented by the five 4-6-0 locomotives of Class S1 built in 1900–01. Train weights were increasing, and it was clear that a better design was required. The southern partner of the NER in the East Coast route was the Great Northern Railway, which since 1898 had built a number of 4-4-2 locomotives (GNR Class C1) which proved capable of hauling the heaviest expresses of the period; and so Worsdell decided upon the same wheel arrangement for a new class for the NER. [2]
The first ten, built at Gateshead in 1903–04, were assigned Class V; the second ten, built at Darlington in 1910 had some detail differences and were assigned Class V/09 (or V1 according to some sources), the /09 suffix referring to the year that the design was prepared. [2] [3]
Class V were given numbers scattered between 295 and 1794 which were blank at the time. Class V/09 were given numbers 696–705. All twenty passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 Grouping, becoming LNER Class C6, and they retained their numbers on the LNER. [2]
The locomotives were built to haul express passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line between York and Edinburgh Waverley, with a change of locomotives at Newcastle. [2] By the end of 1920, most of the class were allocated to the two main Newcastle-area depots, ten at Gateshead and eight at Heaton; but the remaining two were at York. [4] By Grouping, three had been reallocated to Tweedmouth, and York had gained a further two, leaving seven at Gateshead and six at Heaton. The York engines were mainly used between York and Newcastle; those at Tweedmouth worked between Berwick and Newcastle; but the Gateshead and Heaton engines could be used between Newcastle and York, Newcastle and Leeds, or between Newcastle and Edinburgh. [5]
Withdrawal commenced with no. 532 in January 1943; [6] later that year, the nineteen surviving locomotives were allotted new numbers 2930–48, but by the time the scheme was published, no. 649 (which had been allotted no. 2930) had also been withdrawn, so the new series as published was 2931–48. The actual renumbering did not commence until 1946, by which time several more had been withdrawn, and only seven were ultimately renumbered. [7] Two, LNER nos. 2933 and 2937, remained in service at nationalisation, but both were withdrawn in March 1948 before the British Railways renumbering was prepared. [8]
| No. | Builder | Built | Class | 1920 depot | 1946 LNER number | Renumbered | Withdrawn |
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| 532 | Gateshead | November 1903 | V | Heaton | – | – | January 1943 |
| 649 | Gateshead | December 1903 | V | Heaton | (2930) | – | August 1943 |
| 784 | Gateshead | December 1903 | V | Heaton | 2931 | November 1946 | November 1947 |
| 295 | Gateshead | June 1904 | V | Gateshead | (2932) | – | March 1944 |
| 1680 | Gateshead | June 1904 | V | Heaton | 2934 | June 1946 | November 1947 |
| 742 | Gateshead | June 1904 | V | Heaton | 2933 | October 1946 | March 1948 |
| 1753 | Gateshead | August 1904 | V | Heaton | (2935) | – | July 1946 |
| 1776 | Gateshead | October 1904 | V | Heaton | (2936) | – | April 1944 |
| 1792 | Gateshead | October 1904 | V | Heaton | 2937 | November 1946 | March 1948 |
| 1794 | Gateshead | October 1904 | V | Gateshead | (2938) | – | May 1944 |
| 696 | Darlington | May 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | 2939 | December 1946 | December 1947 |
| 697 | Darlington | May 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | (2940) | – | October 1945 |
| 698 | Darlington | June 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | 2941 | December 1946 | December 1947 |
| 699 | Darlington | June 1910 | V/09 | York | (2942) | – | July 1944 |
| 700 | Darlington | July 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | (2943) | – | May 1946 |
| 701 | Darlington | July 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | (2944) | – | August 1944 |
| 702 | Darlington | August 1910 | V/09 | York | (2945) | – | July 1946 |
| 703 | Darlington | August 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | (2946) | – | January 1945 |
| 704 | Darlington | September 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | 2947 | January 1947 | November 1947 |
| 705 | Darlington | September 1910 | V/09 | Gateshead | (2948) | – | December 1943 |
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