Gresley GNR/LNER O2 Class 2-8-0

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neildimmer
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Gresley GNR/LNER O2 Class 2-8-0

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I have added a large collection of photos of Gresley’s O2 2-8-0 Class
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class O2 was a class of three-cylinder 2-8-0 steam locomotives designed by Nigel Gresley for freight work and built by the GNR from 1921. Further examples were built by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) from 1924.
The LNER created four subclasses:
O2/1, Introduced 1921. Development of experimental Gresley GNR 3-cylinder locomotive (LNER 3921). Subsequently rebuilt with side-window cab and reduced boiler mountings.
O2/2, Introduced 1924. Development of O2/1 with detail differences.
O2/3, Introduced 1932. Development of O2/2 with side-window cab and reduced boiler mountings.
O2/4, Introduced 1943. Rebuilt with 100A (B1 type) boiler and smokebox extended backwards
All 67 locomotives passed to British Railways (BR) in 1948 and were given BR Numbers 63921-63987, but 63921 (which was the prototype 461, LNER 3921) was quickly scrapped. They served all across the former LNER from Stratford through East Anglia into the East Midlands, primarily hauling coal and iron ore trains. By winter 1955/56, they had all gravitated to Doncaster (36A - 35 locomotives), Grantham (35B - 14 locomotives) and Retford (36E - 17 locomotives). By winter 1962, they were down to 52 locomotives still in much the same locations, the following having been scrapped: 63929/34/44/47/50-55/57-59/70.By the end of 1963 they were all gone

Over 105 new photos including this one of
63987 leaving Woodhead old tunnel on a goods service from Mottram yard 3rd March 1954, the new Woodhead tunnel still not yet opened on the right Gresley O2-3
https://tinyurl.com/2mksrtpt

Full collections start here with just one photo in GNR livery
GNR era
475
https://tinyurl.com/bddxv9a9
LNER era photos start here with
484
https://tinyurl.com/29cnezva
to 3984
https://tinyurl.com/yh98pe5b

B.R. era starts here with this ex works colour photo by Tony Gillett of
63498
https://tinyurl.com/493r2mw7
to
63986
https://tinyurl.com/2p9xkp65

Neil
https://tinyurl.com/2mksrtpt
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