NER Class E
Class of 0-6-0T locomotives designed by Thomas Worsdell
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The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class E, classified as Class J71 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), was a class of small 0-6-0T steam locomotive designed by T.W. Worsdell. They had inside cylinders and Stephenson valve gear and were the basis for the later NER Class E1 (LNER Class J72).
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Numbering
Eighty-one of them passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were numbered 68230-68316 (with gaps).
Accidents and incidents
- In 1890, locomotive No. 811 was hauling a freight train when it was derailed on the Redheugh Incline, Gateshead, County Durham.[1]
