GER Class E22

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The GER Class E22 was a class of 0-6-0 steam tank locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J65.

[edit] Overview

These had either 4ft. 0in. or 4ft. 2in. coupled wheels (sources are contradictory, see ^[1] and ^[2]), 14 x 20 in. cylinders and were lighter than the T18 class. They were reboilered between 1889 and 1912. The Macallan variable blastpipe was removed from 1924. They ran as 2-4-0Ts on the Fenchurch Street to Blackwall service and were sometimes known as "Blackwall tanks". They operated on the Stoke Ferry, Eye and Mid-Suffolk Light Railway branches. They became extinct in 1956.^[3]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Great Eastern locomotive designs
2. ^ The Holden J65 (GER Class E22) 0-6-0T Locomotives
3. ^ (RCTS 1983:70-73)

[edit] References

• RCTS (1983). Locomotives of the LNER. Part 8A. Tank engines—classes J50 to J70. Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. 

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