NER Class Y

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Refimprove Template:Template other The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class Y (LNER Class A7) 4-6-2T tank locomotives were designed whilst Wilson Worsdell was Chief Mechanical Engineer, but none were built until 1910 by which time Vincent Raven had taken over.

Overview

The Class Y locomotives were intended for hauling coal trains and were developed from the NER Class X (LNER Class T1) 4-8-0T heavy shunters. However, they had larger boilers and smaller cylinders for higher working speeds. Twenty were built in one batch and numbered between 1113 and 1195. Originally built with saturated boilers pressed to , seven locomotives were later fitted with boilers equipped with superheaters and pressed to .Template:Sfn

All twenty locomotives passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 Grouping. The LNER left the NER's locomotive numbers unchanged, but raised the boiler pressure of the saturated locomotives to . They also fitted ten more locomotives with the 160 lbf/in² superheated boilers that the LNER classified as diagram 55.

By the time the A7s entered LNER ownership in 1923, the A7s had been relegated to shunting in the larger marshalling yards. Their power was invaluable when shunting heavy trains over the shunting hump. In the 1930s, Nos. 1136 and 1175 were allocated to hauling chalk quarry trains from Hessle Quarry to Stoneferry Cement Works, in the Hull area.

Heavy mineral traffic declined after the end of World War II, and the A7s moved to the Hull area, except for Nos. 1181 and 1192 which stayed at Stockton. At Hull, the A7s replaced the old Hull and Barnsley Railway (H&BR) types which were being withdrawn at that time.

During LNER ownership in the 1940s, two locomotives were rebuilt with diagram 63B superheated boilers pressed to 175 lbf/in²; the locomotives were then assigned to Class A7/1.

In the LNER 1946 renumbering scheme, the class received the 9770 to 9789 block; at nationalisation in 1948 all 20 locomotives passed to British Railways they were assigned the numbers 69770–69789, although the last locomotive was withdrawn before it was renumbered.

BR continued the rebuilding scheme, dealing with another 13 locomotives, although one received a diagram 63B saturated boiler and one a diagram 63C superheated one. Both were pressed to 175 lbf/in².

Withdrawal

The A7s were withdrawn between 1951 and 1957 and none have survived into preservation.

Fleet list

Table of locomotivesTemplate:Sfn

NER No.	LNER 1942 No.	Date built	Date superheated	Date rebuilt	Date Withdrawn	Notes
1113	9770	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1114	9771	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1126	9772	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	—	Template:Dts
1129	9773	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1136	9774	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1170	9775	Template:Dts	—	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1174	9776	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1175	9777	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	—	Template:Dts
1176	9778	Template:Dts	—	—	Template:Dts
1179	9779	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1180	9780	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1181	9781	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1182	9782	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	—	Template:Dts
1183	9783	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1185	9784	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1190	9785	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1191	9786	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Rebuilt with superheated dia 63C boiler
1192	9787	Template:Dts	—	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Rebuilt with saturated dia 63B boiler
1193	9788	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
1195	9789	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	—	Template:Dts	Withdrawn before BR number applied

References

• Template:RCTS-LocosLNER

External links

• LNER Encyclopedia