GER Class S56

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GER Class S56 (and R24 rebuilt)
LNER Class J69
BR
ClassGER: S56 or R24R
LNER: J69
Power classBR: 2F
NicknamesBucks, Buckjumpers
Axle load classLNER/BR: RA 3
Retired1940–1962
DispositionOne preserved, remainder scrapped

The GER Class S56 was a class of

James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. Together with some rebuilt examples of GER Class R24, they passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping
in 1923, and received the LNER classification J69.

History

The Class S56 were a development of the Class R24, being almost identical, apart from higher boiler pressure and larger water tanks. Twenty were built in 1904 at Stratford Works.

Table of orders and numbers[1]
Year Order No. Quantity GER Nos. LNER Nos. 1946 Nos. Notes
1904 S56 10 51–60 7051–7060 8617–19, —, 8621, —, 8623, —, 8625–8626
1904 P57 10 81–90 7081–7090 —, 8628–8633, —, 8635–8636

All twenty passed to the LNER in 1923. Thirteen class J69 locomotives were lent to the War Department in October 1939,

Melbourne and Longmoor Military Railways.[2] The remaining locomotives were renumbered 8617–8636 in order of construction; however gaps were left where the locomotives sold to the War Department would have been. At nationalisation in 1948, the remainder passed to British Railways, who added 60000 to their number. Post-war withdrawals started in 1958, and by 1962 all had been retired.[4]

Table of withdrawals of S56-built locomotives[3][4]
Year Quantity in
service at
start of year		 Quantity
withdrawn		 Locomotives numbers Notes
1940 20 5 7054, 7056, 7058, 7081, 7088 to WD 86, 87, 83, 80, 91
1958 15 5 68617–18/28/31–32
1959 10 4 68625/29–30/36
1960 6 1 68633
1961 5 2 68619/23
1962 3 3 68621/26/35

Preservation

GER no. 87 on display at Bressingham

GER no. 87 (LNER 7087, 8633, BR 68633) has been preserved, initially at the Clapham Transport Museum,[5] and now at the National Railway Museum. It is currently on display at Bressingham Steam Museum.

References

  1. ^ Aldrich 1969, p. 102
  2. ^ a b Tourret 1995, p. 47
  3. ^ a b Aldrich 1969, p. 103
  4. ^ a b Aldrich 1969, pp. 124–125
  5. ^ Aldrich 1969, p. 104
  • Aldrich, C. Langley (1969). The Locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway 1862–1962 (7th ed.). Wickford, Essex: C. Langley Aldrich.
    OCLC 30278831
    .
  • Tourret, R. (1995). Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War. Abingdon, Oxon: Tourret Publishing.
    ISBN 0-905878-06-X
    .
  • Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, part 4 (1948 ed.). pp. 49–50.

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