The LNER 'J' 0-6-0 Locomotives: J50 - J70 and Diesels
Due to the large numbers of different 0-6-0 types, they have been split into four indexes:
The 0-6-0 Tender Locomotive Classes J1 - J20, can be found here
The 0-6-0 Tender Locomotive Classes J21 - J41, can be found here
The 0-6-0 Tank Locomotive Classes J71 - J94, can be found here
0-6-0 Diesel Locomotives
Due to the large numbers of inherited 0-6-0T shunting types, the LNER did not introduce any new 0-6-0T shunters until the 1940s. As well as the famous J94 'Austerity' tanks, the LNER introduced two types of diesel 0-6-0 shunters.
Class | Builder | Designer | First Built | Last Withdrawal | Comments |
J45 / DES1 | English Electric | 1944 | 1967 | Diesel Shunters | |
DES2 | Brush | 1949 | 1962 | Diesel Shunter | |
AW 0-6-0 | Armstrong Whitworth | 1932 | 1933 | Ran trials only before transfer |
The 0-6-0 Tank Locomotive Classes J50 - J71
Though heavily outnumbered by its tender counterpart, the 0-6-0T was a popular type in Britain, especially for shunting but also for freight work, branch passenger services and even suburban passenger duties. New construction continued well into British Railways days.
The LNER inherited over 1,000 examples (14% of the total) from all seven constituents – a total exceeded only by the 0-6-0 tender type. 0-6-0Ts were particularly popular with the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and the Great Eastern Railway (GER). Five of the inherited 0-6-0Ts were crane tanks, and twelve were tram locomotives.
The LNER perpetuated existing designs with 82 new locos before purchasing 75 locos to the War Department design of 1942. Meanwhile 17 pre-Grouping 0-6-0Ts were acquired post-Grouping, principally the Midland & Great Northern (M&GN). At Nationalisation (1948), some 824 0-6-0Ts remained. These comprised 664 pre-Grouping locos, 157 LNER and three M&GN. British Railway added a further 28 locomotives from 1949, remarkably adopting a North Eastern Railway (NER) design of 1898.
See the The 0-6-0T Tank Locomotive Classes J71 - J94 index for the remaining LNER 0-6-0T types.
Class | Builder | Designer | First Built | Last Withdrawal | Comments |
GNR J19 | GNR | Stirling | 1872 | 1927 | No LNER Classification |
J50 | GNR/LNER | Gresley | 1922 | 1965 | "Submarines" |
J51 | GNR | Gresley | 1914 | 1935 | Rebuilt as J50 |
J52 | GNR | Ivatt | 1894 | 1961 | |
J53 | GNR | Stirling | 1892 | 1935 | Rebuilt as J52 |
J54 | GNR | Stirling | 1874 | 1933 | |
J55 | GNR | Stirling | 1874 | 1950 | Rebuilds of J54 & J56 |
J56 | GNR | Stirling | 1877 | 1932 | |
J57 | GNR | Stirling | 1882 | 1938 | |
GCR "7" | GCR | Sacre | 1885 | 1923 | |
J58 | GCR | Sacre | 1869 | 1930 | |
J59 | GCR | Sacre | 1871 | 1929 | "Humpies" |
J60 | GCR | Kitsons | 1897 | 1948 | |
J61 | GCR | - | 1873 | 1931 | Two miscellaneous GCR 0-6-0STs |
J62 | GCR | Pollitt | 1897 | 1951 | |
J63 | GCR | Robinson | 1906 | 1957 | |
J64 | Mid-Suffolk | Hudswell, Clarke | 1904 | 1929 | Taken over on 1st July 1924 |
J65 | GER | J. Holden | 1889 | 1956 | "Blackwall" tanks |
J66 | GER | J. Holden | 1886 | 1962 | |
J67 | GER | J. Holden | 1890 | 1958 | |
J68 | GER | Hill | 1912 | 1961 | |
J69 | GER | J. Holden | 1890 | 1962 | |
J70 | GER | James Holden | 1903 | 1955 | Tram: 'Toby' the Tram |