LNWR Class E

Template:Use British English The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class E was a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives in service between 1904 and 1928.

History

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No. 1886 with tender

26 were rebuilt by George Whale from Class B 4-cylinder compounds with the simple addition of a leading pony truck to reduce excessive front overhang between 1904 and 1908. The only alteration was to wheelbase and weight, but when the letter classification system was introduced in 1911, this took them into a different class. Two Class Es (No. 1038 in 1907 and No. 647 in 1908) were further rebuilt to Class Fs by replacing the Template:Cvt diameter boiler with a larger Template:Cvt diameter boiler.

From 1917, Charles Bowen Cooke started to rebuild the remaining 24 Class Es into LNWR Class G1 0-8-0s with simple expansion engines. 12 had been modified by the grouping of 1923, and a further pair were rebuilt in January and February of that year. Of the remaining ten Class Es, the LMS allocated them the numbers 9600-9. A further four were rebuilt to Class G1 in 1923-4, while the remaining six engines were withdrawn as Class Es in 1927/8, two of them never receiving their allocated LMS number. None were preserved.

List of locomotives

LNWR no.	Rebuilt from B	LMS no.	Fate	Notes
1883	1904		Rebuilt to G1 1918	Template:Sfn
1884	1904		Rebuilt to G1 1917	Template:Sfn
1885	1905		Rebuilt to G1 1917	Template:Sfn
1886	1904		Rebuilt to G1 1923	Template:Sfn
1888	1904	Template:Ntsh(9600)	Rebuilt to G1 1924	Template:Sfn
1889	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1920	Template:Sfn
905	1905	Template:Ntsh9601	Withdrawn 1928	Template:Sfn
18	1905	Template:Ntsh(9602)	Withdrawn 1928	Template:Sfn
2558	1906	Template:Ntsh9603	Withdrawn 1928	Template:Sfn
2563	1908	Template:Ntsh(9604)	Rebuilt to G1 1924	Template:Sfn
1017	1906	Template:Ntsh(9605)	Withdrawn 1927	Template:Sfn
1038	1905		Rebuilt to F 1907	Template:Sfn
1042	1906	Template:Ntsh9606	Withdrawn 1928	Template:Sfn
1064	1906	Template:Ntsh(9607)	Rebuilt to G1 1923	Template:Sfn
1065	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1919	Template:Sfn
1222	1906	Template:Ntsh9608	Withdrawn 1928	Template:Sfn
1223	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1921	Template:Sfn
1227	1908		Rebuilt to G1 1921	Template:Sfn
1236	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1921	Template:Sfn
2574	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1920	Template:Sfn
1586	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1921	Template:Sfn
647	1907		Rebuilt to F 1908	Template:Sfn
1585	1906	Template:Ntsh(9609)	Rebuilt to G1 1923	Template:Sfn
2056	1907		Rebuilt to G1 1921	Template:Sfn
437	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1922	Template:Sfn
2169	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1923	Template:Sfn

LMS numbers in parentheses were not carried prior to rebuilding as G1 or withdrawal.

External links

• LNWRS Webb page on the Class E Template:Webarchive (NB lifetime is incorrect as it includes G1 rebuilds)