#0596
GCR Class 2
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Kitson and Company· from 1887· 2 classes of 25+6 British 4-4-0 locomotives, later LNER class D7
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MS&L Class 2 No. 687 - Railroad and Engineering Journal v66 n10 p458: Anonymous Unknown author —only credit is ‘The Railway Engineer’· Public domain
what is it?
The GCR Class 2 steam locomotive was derived from a Kitson (Leeds) built/Thomas Parker designed prototype 4-4-0 locomotive No. 561, (the first single frame locomotive built for the MSLR) exhibited in Manchester in 1887. The design led to the production of a series of express steam locomotives built between 1890 and 1894 for use on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later the Great Central Railway.
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 139 years ago, in 1887.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 52 years (1887–1939).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1887–1894
- in service from
- 1887
- retired
- 1939
- status
- retired
- number built
- 31
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Kitson and Company, Gorton Works
- designer
- Thomas Parker
- operators
- Great Central Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- weight
- 46.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513021, Wikipedia: GCR Class 2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.