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The Holden J16 & J17 (GER Classes F48 & G58) 0-6-0 Locomotives
— LNER Encyclopedia
— Great Eastern Railway Society {{DEFAULTSORT:Ger Class G58 Great Eastern Railway locomotives, G58 0-6-0 locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1905 Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain Freight locomotives
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Class J17) was a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotive
A tender or coal-car (US only) is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, s ...
s designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway in England. The class consisted partly of new locomotives built from 1905 to 1911 and partly of rebuilds of the earlier GER Class F48 built from 1900 to 1903. The rebuilding started under GER auspices from 1921 and was continued by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) after grouping
Grouping may refer to:
* Muenchian grouping
* Principles of grouping
* Railways Act 1921, also known as Grouping Act, a reorganisation of the British railway system
* Grouping (firearms), the pattern of multiple shots from a sidearm
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in 1923.
History
The earlier GER Class F48 were built between 1900 and 1903 and had round-topboiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centr ...
s; there were sixty of them. The G58 had Belpaire firebox
The Belpaire firebox is a type of firebox used on steam locomotives. It was invented by Alfred Belpaire of Belgium in 1864. Today it generally refers to the shape of the outer shell of the firebox which is approximately flat at the top and sq ...
es, like those fitted to the F48 No. 1189, and later fitted to the Class D56 ''Claud Hamilton'' 4-4-0s. A further thirty of the Belpaire boiler type followed to form Class G58.
Superheating
The class wassuperheated
A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam. Superheated steam is used in steam turbines for electricity generation, steam engines, and in processes such as steam reforming. There are ...
between 1915 and 1932. From 1921, all the round-top boilers were replaced by the Belpaire type and the majority were of the superheated type.
Blastpipes
At firstMacallan blastpipe The blastpipe is part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the fire.
History
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s were fitted, but later the Stone's variable blastpipe was substituted. Plain blastpipe The blastpipe is part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the fire.
History
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s were substituted between 1924 and 1929.
LNER ownership
On the LNER, those retaining round-top fireboxes were classified J16, and those built, or rebuilt, with Belpaire fireboxes were classified J17. The J16 category ceased to exist in 1932.BR ownership
All the J16s had been rebuilt as J17s by 1932 and 89 J17s passed to British Railways (BR) in 1948. BR numbers were 65500–65589, of which 65500–59 were the rebuilds from F48 (J16). One number (65550) was blank, because locomotive no. 8200 had been destroyed in a GermanV-2 rocket
The V-2 (german: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit=Retaliation Weapon 2), with the technical name ''Aggregat 4'' (A-4), was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was develop ...
explosion at Stratford in November 1944. The second locomotive was withdrawn in 1953, and the last in 1962.
Preservation
GER no. 1217 (LNER 8217, 5567, BR 65567) was withdrawn in 1962 and acquired privately for preservation. It is owned by theNational Railway Museum
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, York
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, as part of the UK National Collection, but is on loan to the Barrow Hill Roundhouse and Railway Centre.
Modelling
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References
* * * * Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1948 edition, part 4, page 41External links
The Holden J16 & J17 (GER Classes F48 & G58) 0-6-0 Locomotives
— LNER Encyclopedia
— Great Eastern Railway Society {{DEFAULTSORT:Ger Class G58 Great Eastern Railway locomotives, G58 0-6-0 locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1905 Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain Freight locomotives