The LNER Encyclopedia

Finally got the first locomotive page up for the new year! It is the ex-NBR E7 2-4-0:

http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e7.shtml

I've started work on the E '2-4-0's and should get through them pretty quickly. (the past few weeks have been spent on other things, as well as tidying up other areas, prep work on the 2-4-0s, etc).

As usual, I shall post the remaining 2-4-0 updates to this thread.

Why start with the E7 and not the E1? The E1 will be next. I plan to finish with the NER 2-4-0s, and then dive straight into the NER 4-4-0s and NER 0-6-0s. I'll probably be doing some of those in parallel, and updating some of the NER engineer pages at the same time.
The current planned schedule (subject to change):

1.) Finish the 2-4-0s; write new indices for the Electrics and Railcars.
2.) The NER & H&B 4-4-0s and 0-6-0s + update some of the NER engineers
3.) M&GN 4-4-0s
4.) NBR & GNSR 4-4-0s
5.) Remaining 0-6-0s, Electrics, and Railcars.


Richard

I've just completed the GNR E1 page:

http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e1.shtml



Richard

I've just completed the pages for the GCR E2 and GCR 12A, and given the GER E4 page a major update:

http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e2.shtml
http://www.lner.info/locos/E/gcr_12A.shtml
http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e4.shtml

Made good progress - I was only planning on working on the two GCR engines!


Richard

I've just completed the Tennant 'E5' 2-4-0:

http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e5.shtml


I've also updated some of the NER engineer pages. The most significant changes are the addition of a photograph to McDonnell's page, and the addition of a new page for Walter M. Smith:

http://www.lner.info/eng/mcdonnell.shtml
http://www.lner.info/eng/smith.shtml

Smith had a large influence on NER designs during W.Worsdell's tenure, and designed the three cylinder compound system used by the NER, the Midland and LMS. Arguably the only successful compound expansion system used on a British locomotive?


Richard

Another NER 2-4-0 added, the Fletcher '901' class:

http://www.lner.info/locos/E/ner_901.shtml

Yesterday and this morning I've also added and updated a few more images.
Dennis Butler sent a good photograph of one of the Robinson C5 compounds in GCR livery ( http://www.lner.info/locos/C/c5.shtml ), and I've also received the photographs my father took during last August's trip to the NRM and Middleton Railways (these include the J17, J69, D17, and Y7 pages).


Richard

I've completed the final 2-4-0 page - the Fletcher '1440' Class:

http://www.lner.info/locos/E/ner_1440.shtml

During the past few days, I've been working on quite a bit of prep work for the NER 4-4-0s and 0-6-0s, so I will probably move on to the NER 4-4-0s at the weekend. I intend to work on the NER 0-6-0s and 4-4-0s in parallel.
The long term schedule is: (subject to change)

1.) NER and HBR 4-4-0s and 0-6-0s
2.) M&GN 4-4-0s
3.) NBR and GNSR 4-4-0s
4.) GNR and GCR 0-6-0s
5.) Remaining GER 0-6-0s
6.) NBR and GNSR 0-6-0s
7.) Electrics and Railcars/MUs


Richard