The GER Class T18 was a class of fifty steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J66.

Overview

When James Holden took office on the Great Eastern, there were few locomotives, most shunting being done by and obsolete tender locomotives. These small

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had

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s, .

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and a grate area of . They were rebuilt between 1898 and 1908. March Locomotive Depot ex-GE 0-6-0T geograph-2888737-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Withdrawals started in 1936 when four (7278, 7287, 7303 and 7308) were sold to Sir Robert McAlpine and Son, the latter concern also having five on loan from late 1936 to mid-1938. Three others were sold, with No. 297 going to the

Mersey Railway The Mersey Railway was the first part of the passenger railway connecting the communities of Liverpool, Birkenhead, and now the rest of the Wirral Peninsula in England, which lie on opposite banks of the River Mersey, via the Mersey Railway Tun ...

in 1939 as their No. 3 to work ballast trains. By the end of 1940, thirty-one had been withdrawn, and the remaining 19 locomotives continued with no further retirements until 1950. In the LNER 1944 renumbering plan, the locomotives were renumbered 8370–8388. Withdrawal restarted in 1950 and all were gone by the end of 1955. In 1952, three locomotives, 8370 and 8378, and 8382 were transferred to the service list as 32, 36, and 31 respectively.

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External links

— Great Eastern Railway Society
The Holden J66 (GER Class T18) 0-6-0T Locomotives
— LNER Encyclopedia {{LNER Locomotives Great Eastern Railway locomotives, T18 0-6-0T locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1886 Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain Scrapped locomotives