GER Class G58

Infobox Locomotive
powertype=Steam
name = GER Class G58
LNER Class J17


caption =
designer = James Holden
builder =
builddate = see text
totalproduction =
whytetype = 0-6-0
gauge = standard gauge
leadingsize =
driversize = 4' 11"
length =
weight = 45 tons 8 cwt
tender, 38 tons 5 cwt
fueltype = coal
fuelc

waterc

cylindercount = two inside
cylindersize = 19" x 26"
firearea =
boilerpressure = 180 psi
tractiveeffort = 24,340 lbf
railroadclass= 2P4F|

The GER Class G58 (LNER Class J17) was a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. The class consisted partly of new locomotives built 1905-1911 and partly of rebuilds of the earlier GER Class F48, originally built 1900-1903. The rebuilding started under GER auspicies from 1921 and was continued by the LNER after grouping in 1923.

Overview

The earlier GER Class F48 were built between 1900 and 1903 and had round-top boilers; there were sixty of them. The G58 had Belpaire boilers, like those fitted to the T19 class and the initial 0-6-0 to be fitted was an F48 No. 1189. A further thirty of the Belpaire boiler type followed to form class G58. The G58 class was superheated between 1915 and 1932. From 1921, all the round-top boilers were replaced by the Belpaire type and the majority were of the superheated type. The J16 category ceased to exist in 1932. At first Macallan blastpipes were fitted, but later the Stone's variable blastpipe was substituted. Plain blastpipes were substituted between 1924 and 1929. [cite book | last = RCTS | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Locomotives of the LNER. Part 5. Tender engines—classes J1 to J37 | publisher = Railway Correspondence & Travel Society |year= 1966 | location = | url = | doi = | id = ]

Numbering

All the J16s had been rebuilt as J17s by 1932 and 89 J17s passed to British Railways (BR) in 1948. BR numbers were 65500-65589. One locomotive, no. 65550, was missing, having been destroyed in a German V-2 rocket explosion at Stratford in 1944.

Preservation

GER no. 1217 (LNER 8217) is preserved at the National Railway Museum, York.

Modelling

A 4mm scale kit is available from PDK Models [ [http://www.pdk-models.i12.com/PL%202.htm pdk PL pg 2 ] ]

ources

* Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1948 edition, part 4, page 41

References

External links

* [http://www.lner.info/locos/J/j16j17.shtml LNER Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.gersociety.org.uk/loco/index.htm?jholden.htm Great Eastern Railway Society]