LNER Class U1
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The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Beyer-Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsbrough Bank, a steeply graded branch in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route.
Built in 1925 with three cylinders per engine. The power units were based on the existing LNER O2 design of locomotive frames.
Originally numbered 2395, it was renumbered 9999 in March 1946, and then became British Railways No. 69999 after nationalisation in 1948, though it retained its cabsite number plate bearing the its original number throughout its life.
Ran for some time as an oil burner.
Tried out unsuccessfully on the Lickey Incline in 1949/1950 and 1955.
Withdrawn 1955 and scrapped.
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| Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway | |
| Pre-grouping railway designs | |
| Great Central Railway: | A5 - B18 - D11 - J11 - O4 |
| Great Eastern Railway: | J65 - J16 - J17 - Y5 - J17 - N7 - ?? - J69 - B12 - J66 - D13 - E4 - J15 - J70 |
| Great North of Scotland Railway: | D40 |
| Great Northern Railway: | C1 - C2 - J6 - J52 - K3 - N2 |
| North British Railway: | D34 - J36 - Y9 |
| North Eastern Railway: | B16 - E5 - D17 - J21 - J27 - J72 - Q6 - Q7 - X1 - Y7 |
| LNER designs | |
| Gresley: | A1 - A3 - A4 - A8 - B17 -D49 - J38 - J39 - J50 - K4 - P1 - P2 - U1 - V1 - V2 - V3 - V4 - W1 |
| Thompson: | A2 - B1 - B2 - K1 - K5 - L1 - O1 - Q1 |
| Peppercorn: | A1 - A2 - K1 |
| Raven: | A2 - H1 |
