Class EE1 (''Electric Express 1'') was an electric locomotive commissioned by the North Eastern Railway in 1922. Ownership passed to the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

in 1923 and to

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in 1948. It was an electrically powered locomotive in the pre- TOPS period.

Overview

In 1919 the North Eastern Railway made plans to electrify its York- Newcastle stretch of the

East Coast Main Line The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a electrified railway between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. The line is a key transport artery on the eastern side of Great Britain running broa ...

and this locomotive was a prototype built for hauling passenger trains. It had an electrically heated boiler to generate steam for train heating. The wheels were arranged as in a 4-6-4 steam locomotive and the driving wheels were diameter. Each of the three driving axles was powered by a pair of traction motors. Electric locomotives of this design were common in continental Europe and the United States, but this was the only example on a British railway. After

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in 1923 the London and North Eastern Railway dropped the electrification project so (apart from some trials on the Shildon line) the locomotive was never used. It survived into British Railways ownership but was withdrawn in August 1950, and scrapped on 15 December 1950. In common with other LNER electric locomotives, no classification was given to this locomotive until 4 October 1945, when no. 13 was classified EE1 (Electric Express 1). In May 1946, no. 13 was renumbered to 6999; and under

, it became no. 26600 in 1948.

Specification

* Numbers: (NER) 13; (LNER) 6999; (BR) 26600 * Wheel arrangement: 2-Co-2 * Introduced: 1922 * Builder: North Eastern Railway * Motors: 6 x , Metropolitan-Vickers * Total power: * Supply: 1,500 V DC overhead

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The NER Electric 2-Co-2 Class EE1 Locomotive No. 13
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