#0577
GER Class T18
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Stratford Works· from 1886· class of 50 British 0-6-0T locomotives, later LNER class J66
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GER 0-6-0 T18 Tank Engne 275: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The GER Class T18 was a class of fifty 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J66.
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 140 years ago, in 1886.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 69 years (1886–1955).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1886–1888
- in service from
- 1886
- retired
- 1955
- 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
- 0-6-0
- length
- 8.5 m
- weight
- 40.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513227, Wikipedia: GER Class T18 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.