L N E R 4-6-0 Locomotives

A pictorial history of the design, construction, operation and performance of the London and North Eastern Railway four-six-zero locomotives.

With over sixty,zero words and 350 photographs, many previously unpublished from the archives of the Manchester Locomotive Society at Stockport, L N E R four-six-zero Locomotives will be of particular interest to railway modelers and enthusiasts of locomotive running and performance as well as those seeking more general locomotive history.

This volume covers the design, construction, operation and performance of all four-six-zero locomotives that ran on the London & North Eastern Railway between 1923 and 1947 and the LNER designed engines that ran on BR’s Eastern Region until the end of BR steam in 1968. This includes the former Great Central four-six-0s of classes B1 – B9 (the B1 and B2 later reclassified B18 & B19); the North Eastern Railway B13 – B16s; the Great Eastern B12s; and the LNER B17s, the Thompson B1s and rebuilds (B2 and B3/three).

Designed and written in the same style as David Maidment’s previous Locomotive Portfolio books on engines of the Great Western and Southern Railways, Maidment's latest volume also includes his own experiences seeing and traveling behind engines of these classes in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially the B1s, B12s and B17 “Sandringhams.”