#0768
GER Class N31
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Stratford Works· from 1893· class of 81+1 British 0-6-0 locomotives, later LNER class J14
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 0-6-0 GER 998: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The GER Class N31 was a class of eighty-two 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. Eighteen passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 grouping and received the LNER classification J14.
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.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1893–1921).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1893–1898
- in service from
- 1893
- retired
- 1921
- status
- retired
- number built
- 81
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Stratford Works
- designer
- James Holden
- operators
- Great Eastern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 14.3 m
- weight
- 38.6 t
- nicknames
- Swifts
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513221, Wikipedia: GER Class N31 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.