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NBR B class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1906· class of 76 British 0-6-0 locomotives, later LNER class J35
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- 1. NBR B Class No. 197: Wikimedia Commons· CC0
what is it?
The NBR B Class (LNER Class J35) is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by William Paton Reid for freight work on the North British Railway. They were introduced in 1906 and had inside cylinders and Stephenson valve gear. The first eighteen locomotives had piston valves and the remainder had slide valves.
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 120 years ago, in 1906.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1906–1913
- retired
- 1962
- status
- retired
- number built
- 76
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- North British Locomotive Company, Cowlairs railway works
- designer
- William Paton Reid
- operators
- North British Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail, Scottish Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- weight
- 51.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6952853, Wikipedia: NBR B class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.