North Eastern 2-4-2 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class A / F8 (Locobase 3211)

Data from "NER Class A" in Wikipedia at [], last accessed 15 October 2022. See also Richard Marsden's LNER Encyclopedia -- [] (Jan 2004). OS Nock, Locomotives of the NER, 1954)

Developed by TW Worsdell, who, notes Marsden, gave the inside-cylinder Class A some design features that would become characteristic of most NER locos from then on. These included a tapered chimney, a brass cover for the safety valves and a large protective cab."

Data from Glover (1967), who notes that it took the conventional form of placing the firebox between the couple axles. Wikipedia's account says these were the "first locomotives to use steel instead of iron for the boiler." Locobase cannot say whether Wikipedia means for the North Eastern, British locomotives, or some other universe.

Marsden commented that this "most handsome" design did "excellent work on local passenger trains, and many of them were in service for more than 50 years."

This included stints of various length as class F8 on the LNER. (See []) .

Marsden's data differ slightly from the Glover data. He also added details about the class's working after the 1923 Grouping, noting "they were mainly used on the lighter suburban services as well as branch lines around Whitby, Northallerton, and Hawes." Withdrawals began in 1928 and ended in 1938.