The GER Class E22 was a class of twenty

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s designed by James Holden for the

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. They passed to the

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at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J65.

History

These had

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s and were lighter than the T18 (LNER J66) class. They were reboilered between 1889 and 1912. The Macallan variable blastpipe was removed from 1924. They ran as s on the

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to Blackwall service and were sometimes known as ''Blackwall Tanks''. They operated on the

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and

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branches. Withdrawals started in 1930, and by 1937 fifteen had been withdrawn, but there were no more retirements for ten years. In 1944 the five surviving locomotives were renumbered 8211–8215 in order of construction. These last five were withdrawn between 1947 and 1956, when the class became extinct.

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External links

— Great Eastern Railway Society
The Holden J65 (GER Class E22) 0-6-0T Locomotives
— LNER Encyclopedia {{LNER Locomotives Great Eastern Railway locomotives, E22 0-6-0T locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1889 Scrapped locomotives Standard-gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain C n2t locomotives