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GER Class C32
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Stratford Works· from 1893· class of 50 British 2-4-2T locomotives, later LNER class F3
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 2-4-2T GER 1085: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The GER Class C32 was a class of fifty 2-4-2T steam locomotives designed by James Holden and built by the company's Stratford Works between 1892 and 1902. They all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 grouping and received the classification F3.
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 133 years ago, in 1893.
- 10.4 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 60 years (1893–1953).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1893–1902
- in service from
- 1893
- retired
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Stratford Works
- designer
- James Holden
- operators
- Great Eastern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail, Eastern Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-2
- length
- 10.4 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q18955934, Wikipedia: GER Class C32 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.