The Gresley O2 2-8-0 Locomotives The O2 was a three cylinder development of Gresley 's O1 2-8-0 mineral locomotive, and was the first design to use his conjugated valve gear. In 1915, …

The LNER 2-8-0 Locomotives Of the four LNER constituents that adopted the 0-8-0, only the GCR and GNR switched to 2-8-0s - significantly, both companies with long-distance coal traffic. …

At Grouping in 1923, the LNER inherited 131 8K (LNER O4) and 17 8M (LNER O5) locomotives from the GCR. The ROD's asking price for war-surplus locomotives had dropped, and the …

The same boiler design was used on the later three-cylinder O2 2-8-0s. These engines were designed to haul the heavy coal traffic from Peterborough to Ferme Park (London). The design …

Thompson became the LNER's CME in 1941, and quickly initiated a programme of standardisation. One of Thompson 's first standardised designs was for a heavy goods 2-8-0 …

Due to the War, the express passenger designs had been shelved, but Gresley tested the new valve gear with a 3-cylinder 2-8-0 (LNER O2) which was completed in 1918. This was followed …

2012年11月26日 · I assume that Heljan are intending to produce the Gresley 02 2-8-0 in its various forms, but I think one or two posters are confusing the orginal Gresley 01 as being the …

2022年4月29日 · The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class O2 was a class of three-cylinder 2-8-0 steam locomotives designed by Nigel Gresley for freight work and built by the GNR from 1921. …

The layout of the Walschaerts and Gresley valve gear was borrowed from the O2 2-8-0 design. Unusually for a Doncaster design, the P1s also had steam reversing gear, and steam brakes …

GNR/LNER Class O2 2-8-0 No. 461 was completed in May 1918. This was followed by a new K3 2-6-0 fast freight design in 1920. Early trials of the K3 found that the central valve tended to …