The following is a list of locomotives built for the Great Northern Railway. As is customary, engine classes are organized according to the man who was
locomotive superintendent
Chief mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotive ...
when the class was introduced, and to whom the design is often attributed. Six men held this post during the existence of the
Great Northern Railway.
Until 1868 engines were obtained from outside manufacturers, but after this date were increasingly built at the railway's own
Doncaster Works
Doncaster Railway Works is a railway workshop located in Doncaster, England.
Also referred to as The Plant''", it was established by the Great Northern Railway in 1853, replacing the previous works in Boston and Peterborough. Until 1867 it u ...
, commonly known as the "Plant".
Some engines acquired second-hand or from absorbed companies have been omitted from these lists.
The
system of classes was introduced in 1900. Engines withdrawn prior to that date will not have them.
Benjamin Cubitt (1846–1848)
Edward Bury
Edward Bury (22 October 1794 – 25 November 1858) was an English locomotive manufacturer. Born in Salford, Lancashire, he was the son of a timber merchant and was educated at Chester.
Career
By 1823 he was a partner in Gregson and Bury's ste ...
(1848–1850)
Bury resigned after it was discovered he had placed orders for parts with his own firm, rather than another one which had offered a lower bid.
Archibald Sturrock (1850–1866)
Patrick Stirling (1866–1895)
Stirling built locomotives with domeless ("straightback") boilers.
Many were rebuilt by Ivatt with larger, domed boilers, and were placed
in a different class as shown in the table.
Henry Ivatt
Henry Alfred Ivatt (16 September 1851, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire – 25 October 1923) was an English railway engineer, and was the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1896 to 1911.
Career
London and North Western ...
(1895–1911)
Nigel Gresley (1911–1923)
Preserved locomotives
References
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*{{cite book , last=Groves , first=Norman , year=1992 , title=Great Northern Locomotive History, Volume 3b: 1911–1922 The Gresley Era , publisher=Railway Correspondence and Travel Society , isbn=0-901115-70-3
Locomotives
Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...
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