LNER CLASS O4

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) 'Class O4' initially consisted of the 131 ex-Great Central Railway (GCR) Class 8K 2-8-0 steam locomotives acquired on grouping in 1923. These were then further added to when a total of 273 ex-Railway Operating Division ROD 2-8-0s to the same design were purchased between 1923 and 1927. Meanwhile, the 19 GCR Class 8M (LNER Class O5) were rebuilt as O4s in the 1920s and 1930s.
The LNER rebuilt several of them, and allotted them into eight subclasses.
Several were later acquisitoined by the army during the Second World War and sent abroad.

Contents

Preservation

External links

Preservation

One, BR number 63601 is preserved in Britain where it runs on the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughborough.

External links

★ LNER encyclopedia