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V2 Class 2-6-2 Steam Locos

Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley

 
 

Class V2: BR 60890 passes through High Wycombe.  Locomotive was originally LNER 4861.
  
     
  Built by the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER)
Designed under the direction of Nigel Gresley (later to be Sir Nigel Gresley)
Introduced into traffic 1936
 
     

  
 

Class V2: BR 60876 on the Master Cutler.  Loco was originally LNER 4847. This express train ran along the former GCR route between London Marylebone and Sheffield Victoria.  Exact location of the photograph not identified.
  
 

       
 

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V2
LNER Doncaster Works
6' 2"
3 (18.5 x 26 ins)
220 lbs / sq in
33,730 lbs

 
       

  
 

Diagram of LNER Class V2 Gresley 2-6-2 Steam Locomotive
  

Class V2: BR 60971 at an unknown location. This locomotive was originally LNER 3683.
 

     
  The following books covering the LNER may interest you
Power of the V2s
Yeadons Register.  Volume 4.  Class V2
Working Steam: Gresley V2s
 
     

   
 

Class V2: BR 60944 at an unknown location. This locomotive was originally LNER 3647.   
 

 

Class V2: Preserved LNER 4771 "Green Arrow" on display at Doncaster Works 10th July 1994.
 

     
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