The Great Eastern Railway (GER) Class L77, LNER Class N7, is a class of 0-6-2Tsteam locomotives. This article is about an area of London. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the Newmarket, the Harwich, the East Anglian Light and the East Suffolk; among others. ... In Whyte notation, a 0-6-2 is a railroad steam locomotive that has six coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels . ... A tank locomotive (occasionally tank engine) is a steam locomotive that carries its own fuel and water with it, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. ... Great Western Railway No. ...
There were no less than six subclasses.
One, No. 7999 (BR No. 69621) has been preserved.
External links
LNER encyclopedia
Railuk database for N7, N7/1 N7/2 N7/3 N7/4 and N7/5
Some of the extensively-built locomotive classes that came into existence under his aegis may not have been outstanding in performance on the road, or in fuel economy, but they were rugged in design and with their massive working parts have paid handsome dividends in reliability and ease of maintenance.
He had several posts on the GER in the running department and succeeded his father as Locomotive Superintendent in January 1908, but resigned in October 1912 to be succeeded by A.J. Hill.
According to Marshall, Alfred John Hill was born in Peterborough in 1862 and died in Bexhill on 14 March 1927.
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