The LNER Encyclopedia

The North Eastern Railway Class S3, classified B16 by the LNER, was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed for mixed traffic work. It was designed by Vincent Raven and introduced in 1920. The earlier members of this class were fitted with Westinghouse Brakes - all of this equipment was removed during the 1930s.
Seventy S3/B16 locomotives were built between 1919 and 1924. The NER began numbering this class in the range No. 840 through to No. 943 (though not contiguously), those built after late 1922 (from No. 2363 onwards) directly receiving their LNER number. In 1923 all seventy locomotives passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). Some of the existing members were subsequently rebuilt, as shown below (the initially built locomotives being re-designated class B16/1. Seven were rebuilt by Gresley, becoming class B16/2 and seventeen, by Thompson, designated class B16/3). Under the LNER re-numbering scheme, of 1946, they received numbers 1400-1468. Sixty-nine passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were again re-numbered in the sequence 61400-61478. (Numbers 61400 to 61409 were directly re-numbered as 61469 to 61478). One locomotive, No. 925, was badly damaged (along with A4 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood) during a German air-raid on York, 29 April 1942 and was subsequently scrapped. The last, of any variety of B16, was scrapped in 1964 and none have been preserved



This 2nd collection features the B16/1 's in B.R. days, including some renumbered locos so as to avoid the new Thompson B1 number range




including this one with dual identities


61400 on the smoke box and the new number 61469 on buffer beam and cab side


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61400 (Renumbered 61469 Dec 1949)


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61405 (renumbered 61474 in Dec 1949)

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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61410 York shed


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61411 Starbeck 1st August 1955



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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61412 Darlington


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61415 Scarborough 13th June 1959

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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61419 York 18th May 1952



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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61426 York 16th April 1955


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61428 Darlington 27th September 1959


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61430 Darlington 27th September 1959


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61436 Woodford Halse 27th May 1955

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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61443 Darlington 20th September 1959



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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61443 Bishop Auckland SLS-MLS Tees-Tyne Railtour 2nd September 1956


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61445 Scarborough 17th June 1956


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61445 Scarborough shed 13th June 1959


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61460 ex works Darlington shed 21st August 1949



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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61465 Selby 22nd August 1959


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61465 York 16th April 1955



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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61471 Newport September 1957


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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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61477 York 18th May 1952

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B16/1 Raven design - Railway-Photography
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railway photographs from the last 100 years


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