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LNER Gresley "B17" Class 4-6-0
Class Types
| LNER Class |
B17 |
General
| Designer |
Sir Nigel Gresley |
| Introduced |
1928 |
| Big Four |
London and North Eastern Railway |
| Description (1957) |
Classes B17 and B2. Gresley's Sandringham 3-cylinder 4-6-0's, built 1928-37 as Class B17, with 6'8" wheels and 3 cylinders, 17½ X 26 ins. Since 1945 a number of these locomotives have been rebuilt as class B2 with two 20 X 26 ins. cylinders and B1-type boilers, which are also now carried by some of the unconverted 3-cylinder engines. This class is found with varying types of tenders of G.E.R., N.E.R. and L.N.E.R. origin. In 1937 two of the class, Nos. 61659 and 61670 were streamlined similar to the A4 Pacifics for working the 'East Anglian' between London and Norwich. In this form they were classified B17/5. The streamlining was removed in 1951 and the engines became class B17/6, the sub-division of the class as applied to those locomotives now carrying the Bl-type boiler. |
| Wheels |
4-6-0 |
| Number Built as B17 |
73 |
| First in Service |
11/1928 |
| Last in Service |
22/08/1960 |
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