The LNER 0-8-0 Locomotives

The 0-8-0 was an obvious answer to increasing loads that could not be hauled by 0-6-0s without double-heading. Early examples on the London North Western Railway (LNWR) were three- or four-cylinder compounds, but it was the simple two-cylinder version that became established. Four of the LNER's constituents, all handling significant coal traffic, adopted the 0-8-0. Some 374 0-8-0s were inherited by the LNER, 236 surviving to nationalisation. The NER alone supplied over 200, including five three-cylinder locos, to which the LNER added a further ten.

0-8-0 Tender Locomotives

0-8-0 Tank Locomotives

Only one 0-8-0 tank locomotive (the GCR No. 400B) entered LNER ownership at Grouping in 1923, and was quickly withdrawn from service. For heavy wartime shunting needs, Thompson rebuilt thirteen of the Robinson Q4s as Q1 0-8-0T heavy shunters between 1942 and 1945.