#1696
NBR S class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North British Locomotive Company· from 1914· class of 104 British 0-6-0 locomotives, later LNER class J37
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NBR S Class No. 473 as BR No. 64599 at Alloa, 1965: Alan Murray-Rust· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The NBR S Class (LNER Class J37) was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by William Paton Reid for freight work on the North British Railway. The engines were initially designated as B class, being a development of the standard B class locomotives designed by Reid some eight years previously, and represented the culmination of a long evolution on the NBR of powerful 0-6-0 freight engines. The new locomotives were introduced in 1914 and had superheaters, inside cylinders and piston valves operated by Stephenson valve gear.
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 112 years ago, in 1914.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1914–1921
- retired
- 1967
- status
- retired
- number built
- 104
- 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
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 54.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6952862, Wikipedia: NBR S class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.