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The GER Class E22 was a class of twenty 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J65.

History

These had 4-foot-0-inch (1.219 m) coupled wheels, 14-by-20-inch (356 by 508 mm) cylinders and were lighter than the T18 (LNER J66) class.

They were reboilered between 1889 and 1912. The Macallan variable blastpipe was removed from 1924. They ran as 2-4-0Ts on the Fenchurch Street to Blackwall service and were sometimes known as Blackwall Tanks. They operated on the Stoke Ferry, Eye and Mid-Suffolk Light Railway branches. Withdrawals started in 1930, and by 1937 fifteen had been withdrawn, but there were no more retirements for ten years. In 1944 the five surviving locomotives were renumbered 8211–8215 in order of construction. These last five were withdrawn between 1947 and 1956, when the class became extinct.

References

Notes

1. Aldrich 1969, pp. 68–69 (quoting S. D. Holden's personal locomotive register)
2. Aldrich 1969, p. 99.
3. Aldrich 1969, p. 100.
4. Allen et al. 1983, pp. 70–73
5. Aldrich 1969, pp. 99–100

Bibliography

• Aldrich, C. Langley (1969). The Locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway 1862–1962 (7th ed.). Wickford, Essex: C. Langley Aldrich. OCLC 30278831.
• Allen, D. W.; Boddy, M. G.; Brown, W. A.; Fry, E. V.; Hennigan, W.; Manners, F.; Neve, E.; Proud, P.; Roundthwaite, T. E.; Tee, D. F.; Yeadon, W. B. (August 1983) . Fry, E. V. (ed.). Locomotives of the L.N.E.R., part 8A: Tank Engines - Classes J50 to J70. Kenilworth: RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-05-3.

External links

• — Great Eastern Railway Society
• The Holden J65 (GER Class E22) 0-6-0T Locomotives — LNER Encyclopedia

• Great Eastern Railway locomotives
• 0-6-0T locomotives
• Railway locomotives introduced in 1889
• Scrapped locomotives
• Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain