#1946· Class EE1
LNER Class EE1
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by North Eastern Railway· from 1922· class of 1 prototype electric locomotive
what is it?
Class EE1 (Electric Express 1) was a one-off electric locomotive commissioned by the North Eastern Railway in 1922. Ownership passed to the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 and to British Railways in 1948. It was an electrically powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period.
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 104 years ago, in 1922.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.3 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1922
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- North Eastern Railway, Darlington Works
- operators
- North Eastern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail
- top speed
- 144 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 1500 V DC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- 2′Co2′
- Dutch name
- Class EE1
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12857861, Wikipedia: LNER Class EE1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.