2-4-0 Class E4 GER Profile and Models

2-4-0 Class E4 GER

490 at the Bressingham Steam Museum in July 2016. ©Foulger Rail Photos

The GER Class T26 was a class of 2-4-0 steam tender locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. At the 1923 grouping they passed to the London and North Eastern Railway, who classified them E4. Eighteen survived into British Railways ownership in 1948, and the last was withdrawn in 1959, making them the last 2-4-0 tender locomotives at work in Britain. As mixed-traffic types, the T26s gained the semi-official nickname 'Intermediates'. They were particularly associated with the movement of horses by rail to and from Newmarket Racecourse but also worked fish trains from East Anglian ports to Peterborough for onward dispatch to London and the Midlands, local and cross-country passenger traffic on secondary routes, trains of fruit and flowers to the London markets, as pilot engines for heavy excursion trains to coastal resorts in the summer and events such as the Nottingham Goose Fair. T26s were often used on passenger trains to the Norfolk Coast, particularly Wells and Cromer. One (GER No. 490, BR No. 62785) has survived to form a part of the National Collection and is currently located at Bressingham Steam Museum.

(Information provided via Wikipedia)

Type of Locomotive

Steam

Builder

Stratford Works

Build Date

1891 to 1902

Total Built

100

Tractive Effort

12,863 lbf

Wheel Configuration

2-4-0

Operated By

Great Eastern Railway
London & North Eastern Railway
British Railways

Main Duties

Mixed Traffic

In Service Until

1959

Surviving Examples

1

 

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