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GER Class S44
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Stratford Works· from 1898· class of 40 British 0-4-4T locomotives, later LNER class G4
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- 1. Image from page 513 of "Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1892): Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
what is it?
The GER Class S44 was a class of forty 0-4-4T steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 grouping and received the classification G4.
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 128 years ago, in 1898.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.8 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 41 years (1898–1939).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1898–1901
- in service from
- 1898
- retired
- 1939
- status
- retired
- number built
- 40
- 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
- 0-4-4T
- length
- 9.8 m
- weight
- 53.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513224, Wikipedia: GER Class S44 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.