#1817
GNR Class O2
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Doncaster Works· from 1918· class of 67 three-cylinder 2-8-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GNR Class O2 No. 478: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
what is it?
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class O2 was a class of three-cylinder 2-8-0 steam locomotives designed by Nigel Gresley for freight work and built by the GNR from 1921. Further examples were built by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) from 1924.
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 108 years ago, in 1918.
- 19.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 45 years (1918–1963).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1918–1943
- in service from
- 1918
- retired
- 1963
- status
- retired
- number built
- 67
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Doncaster Works, North British Locomotive Company
- designer
- Nigel Gresley
- operators
- Great Northern Railway, 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
- length
- 19.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514007, Wikipedia: GNR Class O2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.