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One preserved, remainder scrapped. The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotives were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for express mixed traffic work, and built at the LNER shops at Doncaster and Darlington between 1936 and 1944. The best known is the first of the class, 4771 (later 800 and 60800) Green Arrow, which ...
Originally classified NER Class V2, the first 20 were built in 1911 by the North British Locomotive Company. This was the first time since the 1880s that the NER had used a private contractor, and was necessary because Gateshead works had stopped building new locomotives in 1910 and Darlington Works was fully booked. Ten of these locomotives ...
The LNER Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotive, number 4771 Green Arrow was built in June 1936 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. The first-built and sole surviving member of its class, it was designed for hauling express freight and passenger trains and named after an express freight service.
10000. Experimental Class W1 locomotive (retained 1924 number) 4-6-4. In each class, individual engines were numbered in order of construction (with a small number of exceptions, most notably the ' A4 ' class where locomotives carrying the names of the LNER's directors were given 'significant numbers' 1-4).
LNER Class V2 4771 Green Arrow.Note Gresley conjugated valve gear located ahead of the piston valves, driven from the valve spindles. The Gresley conjugated valve gear is a valve gear for steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, chief mechanical engineer of the LNER, assisted by Harold Holcroft.
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class A2/1 was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives built at Darlington locomotive works during 1944. They were originally ordered as Class V2 locomotives, as designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, but were revised during construction into a 4-6-2 'Pacific' arrangement under the instruction of Edward Thompson.
Both the class V2 and A1 express locomotives were also built. By 1927 the works was the town's largest employer. Darlington works built six LNER Class K4 2-6-0 locomotives in 1937/38 for operation on the West Highland Line. No. 3442 (later 61994) The Great Marquess has been preserved in full working order and in 2009 was still hauling special ...
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V1 and Class V3 were two classes of related 2-6-2 T steam locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley. [1] A total of 82 V1s were built with 71 being rebuilt into the higher pressure V3s with an additional ten being built as V3s from the final batch of V1s. The V3 was a development of the V1 with ...