The GER Class G58 (
LNER Class J17) is a class of
0-6-0 steam
Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is inv ...
tender locomotive
A tender is a special railroad car, rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood fuel, wood, coal, fuel oil, oil or torrefaction, torrefied biomass) and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared ...
s designed by
James Holden for the
Great Eastern Railway in England. The class consisted partly of new locomotives built from 1905 to 1911 and partly of rebuilds of the earlier
GER Class F48 built from 1900 to 1903. The rebuilding started under GER auspices from 1921 and was continued by the
London and North Eastern Railway
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS) of the "Big Four (British railway companies), Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It ope ...
(LNER) after
grouping in 1923.
History
The earlier
GER Class F48 were built between 1900 and 1903 and had round-top
boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centra ...
s; there were sixty of them. The G58 had
Belpaire fireboxes, like those fitted to the F48 No. 1189, and later fitted to the
Class D56 ''Claud Hamilton'' 4-4-0s. A further thirty of the Belpaire boiler type followed to form Class G58.
Superheating
The class was
superheated between 1915 and 1932. From 1921, all the round-top boilers were replaced by the Belpaire type and the majority were of the superheated type.
Blastpipes
At first
Macallan blastpipes were fitted, but later the
Stone's variable blastpipe was substituted.
Plain blastpipes were substituted between 1924 and 1929.
LNER ownership
On the LNER, those retaining round-top fireboxes were classified J16, and those built, or rebuilt, with Belpaire fireboxes were classified J17. The J16 category ceased to exist in 1932.
BR ownership
All the J16s had been rebuilt as J17s by 1932 and 89 J17s passed to
British Railways
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commis ...
(BR) in 1948. BR numbers were 65500–65589, of which 65500–59 were the rebuilds from F48 (J16). One number (65550) was blank, because locomotive no. 8200 had been destroyed in a German
V-2 rocket
The V2 (), with the technical name ''Aggregat (rocket family), Aggregat-4'' (A4), was the world's first long-range missile guidance, guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the S ...
explosion at
Stratford in November 1944. The second locomotive was withdrawn in 1953, and the last in 1962.
Preservation
GER no. 1217 (LNER 8217, 5567, BR 65567) was withdrawn in 1962 and acquired privately for preservation. It is owned by the
National Railway Museum,
York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...
, as part of the UK National Collection, but is on loan to the
Barrow Hill Roundhouse and Railway Centre.
Modelling
A 4 mm scale kit is available from PDK Models
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References
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* Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1948 edition, part 4, page 41
External links
The Holden J16 & J17 (GER Classes F48 & G58) 0-6-0 Locomotives
— LNER Encyclopedia
— Great Eastern Railway Society
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