what is it?
The NER Class 290 (LNER Class J77) was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives of the North Eastern Railway (NER), rebuilt from an earlier class of 0-4-4T, the NER Bogie Tank Passenger (BTP, later LNER Class G6).
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- builders
- Unknown builder
- designer
- Edward Fletcher, reb.Wilson Worsdell
- top speed
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- power
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- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0T
- length
- 8.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16998628, Wikipedia: NER Class 290 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.