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The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotives were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for express mixed traffic work, and built at the LNER shops at Doncaster and Darlington between 1936 and 1944. The best known is the first of the class, 4771 (later 800 and 60800) Green Arrow, which is the sole survivor of the class.
Operators: Belgian Navy: 5 of 10 delivered from 1985 remain in service as the Aster class (3 sold to France, 1 to Bulgaria, 1 to Pakistan) Bulgarian Navy: 1 in service. French Navy: 13 in service as the Eridan class. Indonesian Navy: 2 in service as the Pulau Rengat class. Latvian Naval Forces: 5 in service.
The LNER Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotive, number 4771 Green Arrow was built in June 1936 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. The first-built and sole surviving member of its class, it was designed for hauling express freight and passenger trains [2] and named after an express freight ...
10000. Experimental Class W1 locomotive (retained 1924 number) 4-6-4. In each class, individual engines were numbered in order of construction (with a small number of exceptions, most notably the ' A4 ' class where locomotives carrying the names of the LNER's directors were given 'significant numbers' 1-4).
Originally classified NER Class V2, the first 20 were built in 1911 by the North British Locomotive Company. This was the first time since the 1880s [a] that the NER had used a private contractor, and was necessary because Gateshead works had stopped building new locomotives in 1910 and Darlington Works was fully booked. Ten of these ...
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) produced several classes of locomotive, mostly to the designs of Nigel Gresley, characterised by a three-cylinder layout with a parallel boiler and round-topped firebox. It produced the most famous locomotive of its day, 4468 'Mallard', the holder of the world steam locomotive speed record.
LNER Class V2 4771 Green Arrow.Note Gresley conjugated valve gear located ahead of the piston valves, driven from the valve spindles. The Gresley conjugated valve gear is a valve gear for steam locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, chief mechanical engineer of the LNER, assisted by Harold Holcroft.
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class A2/1 was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives built at Darlington locomotive works during 1944. They were originally ordered as Class V2 locomotives, as designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, but were revised during construction into a 4-6-2 'Pacific' arrangement under the instruction of Edward Thompson.