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LNER Class Y11
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Motor Rail· from 1919· class of petrol powered 0-4-0 locomotives built by Motor Rail & Tram Car Company Limited
what is it?
LNER Class Y11 was a class of three petrol powered 0-4-0 locomotives built by Motor Rail & Tram Car Company Limited under their Simplex brand and introduced in the years 1919–1925. Two were inherited by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at its formation in January 1923, and a third was purchased later. Their British Railways numbers were 15097-15099.
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 107 years ago, in 1919.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1919–1925
- retired
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Petrol-mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Motor Rail
- operators
- Great Eastern Railway, North British Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail
- top speed
- 12 km/h
- power
- 30 kW
- wheel arrangement
- 4w
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6459298, Wikipedia: LNER Class Y11 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.