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 ...

(LNER) D41 class was a type of

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inherited from the

Great North of Scotland Railway The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country. Formed in 1845, it carried its first passengers the fr ...

(GNSR). The class consisted of two similar GNSR classes: 'S' (introduced in 1893 and designed by James Johnson) and 'T' (introduced in 1895 and designed by

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). The two classes were similar but with detail differences to the boiler.

Construction history

Class S

In December 1893 six locomotives were supplied by Neilson (works nos. 4640-4646) and were numbered 78-83.Baxter (2012), p.239.

Class T

Between December 1895 and February 1898 a further twenty six locomotives were supplied in two batches by Neilson (works nos. 4877-90 and 5212-23), fitted with a larger boiler. Nine of these had been reboilered between 1916 and 1923, making them indistinguishable from the 'S' class, and the remainder were similarly reboilered by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) after 1923. The LNER therefore treated them all as a single class, 'D41'.

British Railways

The first locomotive was withdrawn in 1946, but 22 locomotives passed into

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 ...

ownership in 1948. BR renumbered them by adding 60000 to their 1946 LNER number. The last locomotive was withdrawn in 1953, and all have been scrapped.

References

External links

LNER database Class D41
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