LNWR E Class

LNWR E Class
No. 1886 without it's tender
Technical specifications
Designer(s)	George Whale
Manufacturer(s)	Crewe Works
Build date	1904–08
Total produced	26 rebuilt from Class Bs
Wheel arrangement	Whyte: 2-8-0 UIC: 1′D n4v French: 140 Turkish: 45 Swiss: 4/5 Russia: 1-4-0
Rail gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm); standard gauge
Valve gear	Joy
Cylinders	Four, two outside high-pressure, two inside low-pressure
Boiler type	4 ft 5 in (1,346 mm) 15 ft 6 in (4,724 mm)
Fuel type	Coal
Service information
Years in-service	London and North Western Railway, London Midland and Scottish Railway
Disposition details
Withdrawn	1907–28
Disposition	2 rebuilt to class F 1907–08; 18 rebuilt to class G1 1917–24; 6 scrapped 1927–28

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class E was a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives in service between 1904 and 1928.

History

26 were rebuilt by George Whale from Class B 4-cylinder compounds with the simple addition of a leading pony truck to reduce excessive front overhang between 1904-1908. The only alteration was to wheelbase and weight, but when the letter classification system was introduced in 1911, this took them into a different class. Two of Class Es were further rebuilt to Class Fs by the replacement of the 4'3" diameter boiler with a larger 5'2" diameter boiler; these being 1038 in 1907 and 647 in 1908.

From 1917, Charles Bowen Cooke started to rebuild the remaining 24 Class Es into LNWR Class G1 0-8-0s with simple expansion engines. 12 had been so treated by the grouping of 1923, and a further pair were treated in January and February of that year. Of the remaining ten Class Es, the LMS allocated them the numbers 9600-9. A further four were rebuilt to Class G1 in 1923-4, while the remaining six engines were withdrawn still as Class Es in 1927/8, two of them never receiving their allocated LMS No. None was preserved.

List of Locomotives

LNWR no.	Rebuilt from B	LMS no.	Fate
1883	1904		Rebuilt to G1 1918
1884	1904		Rebuilt to G1 1917
1885	1905		Rebuilt to G1 1917
1886	1904		Rebuilt to G1 1923
1888	1904	(9600)	Rebuilt to G1 1924
1889	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1920
905	1905	9601	Withdrawn 1928
18	1905	(9602)	Withdrawn 1928
2558	1906	9603	Withdrawn 1928
2563	1908	(9604)	Rebuilt to G1 1924
1017	1906	(9605)	Withdrawn 1927
1038	1905		Rebuilt to F 1907
1042	1906	9606	Withdrawn 1928
1064	1906	(9607)	Rebuilt to G1 1923
1065	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1919
1222	1906	9608	Withdrawn 1928
1223	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1921
1227	1908		Rebuilt to G1 1921
1236	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1921
2574	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1920
1586	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1921
647	1907		Rebuilt to F 1908
1585	1906	(9609)	Rebuilt to G1 1923
2056	1907		Rebuilt to G1 1921
437	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1922
2169	1906		Rebuilt to G1 1923

LMS numbers in parentheses were not carried prior to rebuilding as G1 or withdrawal.

London North Western Railway Classes
2-2-2	6ft "Single" Class • 173 Cornwall • 7ft "Large Bloomer" Class • 7ft "Single" Class • "Patent" Class • 6ft 6in "Small Bloomer" Class • H "Special Bloomer" Class • 7ft 6in "Problem"/"Lady of the Lake" Class
2-4-0	6ft "Samson"/"Curved Link Passenger" Class • 6ft 6in "Newton"/"Curved Link Passenger" Class • 5ft 6in "Precursor" • 6ft 6in "Precedent" Class • 2234 "Chopper" Class • "Improved Precedent" Class • "Small Jumbo"/"Waterloo"/"Whitworth" Class • "Crewe Goods" Class
2-4-2	4ft 6in Class • 5ft 6in Class
2-2-2-0	"Experiment" Class (F. W. Webb) • "Dreadnought" Class • "Teutonic" Class
4-2-2-0	No.3026
2-2-2-2	No.687 • No.600 • "Greater Britain" Class • 6ft 3in "John Hick" Class
2-2-4-0	No.2974
4-4-0	"Metropolitan" Class • LNWR "Jubilee" Class • "Alfred the Great" Class • "Benbow" Class • 6ft 9in "Precursor" Class • "Renown" Class • "Queen Mary" Class • "George the Fifth" Class
0-6-2	5ft 3in "Watford" Class • 17in "Coal Tank"
4-6-0	"Experiment" (G. Whale) • "Prince of Wales" Class • "Claughton" Class • No.1361 Prospero • 1400 "Bill Bailey" Class • 19in "Express Goods" Class
4-4-2	"Metropolitan Tank" (Rebuild) • 6ft "Precursor Tank"
4-6-2	2665 "Prince of Wales Tank"
0-6-0	271 Class • DX "Goods" Class • D "Early Goods" Class • "Ostrich" Class • "Wolverton Express Goods" Class • "Special Tank" Class • 17in "Coal Engine" Class • 5ft/18in "Express Goods"/"Crested Goods"/"Cauliflower" Class • DX "Special Goods" Class • 4ft 3in "Square Saddle Tank" Class
0-4-0	"Tram" Class • 4ft 835 "Shunter" Class • 4ft 1201 "Shunter" Class • 2360 Class
0-4-2	835 "Crane Tank" Class • 317 "Bissel" Class
0-8-0	No.2524 • A Class • B Class (F. W. Webb) • C Class • C1 Class • D Class • G Class • G1 Class • G2 Class • G2A Class • G3 Class
2-8-0	E Class • F Class • MM Class
0-8-2	1185 "Shunter" Class
0-8-4	380 Class
2-2-0	"Bury Bar-Frame" Class • B Class (E. Bury)