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LNER Class U1
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1925· class of 1 six-cylinder 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt locomotive
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 2395 LNER U1 Garratt official photo: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
- 2. LNER Class U1 2395 (1925 cavalcade): Official event photographer, otherwise unknown· Public domain
- 3. LNER U1 class Garratt 2395 (Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders, 1931): Andy Dingley (scanner)· Public domain
what is it?
The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route. It was both the longest and the most powerful steam locomotive ever to run in Britain. It was built in 1925 with the motion at each end being based on an existing 2-8-0 design.
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 101 years ago, in 1925.
- 26.5 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 30 years (1925–1955).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1925
- in service from
- 1925
- retired
- 1955
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- designer
- Nigel Gresley
- operators
- London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail, Eastern Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0+0-8-2
- length
- 26.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12061346, Wikipedia: LNER Class U1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.