North Eastern T2 LNER Q6

NER T2, LNER Q6 was next at Gromont.

63395 runs round it's train.

With a rapid growth in mineral traffic at the beginning of the 20th Century, the North Eastern Railway (NER) urgently required powerful locomotives. Traffic not only consisted of coal and coke, but also limestone, ironstone, and imported ores. Most of this was in the Durham area, but traffic from the South Yorkshire collieries to Hull docks was also increasing. To solve this need, Wilson Worsdell designed his Q5 0-8-0 class to be strong and reliable. These locomotives also had to have relatively light axle loadings for the colliery track, and good steam brakes for descending the colliery inclines.
The Q5 has its origins in Worsdell's B13 and B14 4-6-0 designs which were designed for heavy passenger trains. By borrowing the basic outside cylinder design from these 4-6-0 classes, Worsdell produced a simple and reliable 0-8-0. Piston valves were proving to be reliable by the time of construction in 1901, so forty of the Q5s were built with piston valves (NER Class T), whilst the remaining fifty had slide valves (NER Class T1).

As has been indicated, the NER's first 0-8-0 design proved successful. When traffic continued to grow, Raven would adapt the Q5 design to produce his very successful Q6 0-8-0 design.

Allocations were mainly in the Durham area, for which the Q5s were designed. Twenty were allocated to the Hull area for hauling coal from the South Yorkshire collieries to the Hull docks. The Hull allocation would be reduced in the 1920s with the last leaving the Hull area in 1935.
During World War 1, all of the NER Class T1 slide valve locomotives moved to France with the Royal Engineers. All survived, and returned to duty with the NER before Grouping.


Most grateful to the LNER encyclopedia for the above details 

http://www.lner.info/locos/Q/q5.shtml