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NER Class E1
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Armstrong Whitworth· from 1898· class of 113 British 0-6-0T locomotives
what is it?
The North Eastern Railway Class E1, classified as Class J72 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), is a class of small 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by Wilson Worsdell for shunting. They had inside cylinders and Stephenson valve gear. They were a development of the earlier NER Class E (LNER Class J71) 0-6-0T designed by T.W. Worsdell, who was Wilson Worsdell's brother.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 128 years ago, in 1898.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1898–1951
- retired
- 1964
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 113
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Armstrong Whitworth, Doncaster Works, Darlington Works
- designer
- Wilson Worsdell
- operators
- North Eastern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail, Eastern Region of British Railways, North Eastern Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6953545, Wikipedia: NER Class E1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.