NER Class X
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Overview
The reversing gear was originally mechanical, but was replaced on all but two of the locomotives (nos. 1355/8) by steam-operated reversing gear between 1932 and 1934.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The steam reversing gear was removed again between 1941 and 1947.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1929, No. 1656 was moved to the newly built Whitemoor Yard at March, Cambridgeshire.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1932, this locomotive was replaced by Nos. 1355 and 1358.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Whitemoor preferred the ex-GCR 0-8-4T (LNER Class S1) for hump shunting, so in 1934 No 1358 was moved to Doncaster, and No. 1355 to Mexborough.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1936, No. 1355 moved to King's Cross to shunt the engine shed for seven weeks, before joining No. 1358 in Doncaster.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". These two locomotives were scrapped at Doncaster in 1937.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The remaining T1s continued to work coal trains at various docks and marshalling yards throughout North East England.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". After World War II, coal exports never returned to their pre-war levels.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Hence, many of the T1s moved to other sheds for heavy shunting duties.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Numbering
On the North Eastern Railway the first ten locomotives were numbered 1350–9; these numbers were retained following the formation of the LNER on 1 January 1923. The five built in 1925 were given LNER numbers 1656–60.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1946, the thirteen remaining locomotives were renumbered 9910–22; these all passed to British Railways in 1948, being renumbered 69910-69922 between 1948 and 1951.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Withdrawal
Two T1s were withdrawn in 1937, and the remainder were withdrawn between 1955 and 1961. No examples have been preserved.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
| Year | Quantity in service at start of year |
Quantity withdrawn |
Locomotive numbers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 15 | 2 | 1355/58 | |
| 1955 | 13 | 2 | 69914/19 | |
| 1956 | 11 | 1 | 69922 | |
| 1957 | 10 | 2 | 69911/16 | |
| 1958 | 8 | 2 | 69913/18 | |
| 1959 | 6 | 5 | 69910/12/15/17/20 | |
| 1960 | 1 | 0 | – | |
| 1961 | 1 | 1 | 69921 |
Notes
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Sources
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- Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1948 edition, part 4, page 56
External links
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