page_title: NZR OB class
hierarchical_section_title: NZR OB class
caption_attribution_description: English: Ob Class steam locomotive, Wellington and Manawatu Railway Co. no 11, 2-8-0 type. This image is taken by Godber from the page in his album Vol 4, p 30 (PA1-o-196). See original glass negative at APG-0269-1/2.
context_page_description: The Oᴮ class was the first class of steam locomotives constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company in New Zealand. The class consisted of two locomotives ordered in 1888, and they entered service in September of that year as WMR No.'s 11 and 12.
  When the WMR and its locomotive fleet was acquired by the government and merged into the national New Zealand Railways in 1908, the two locomotives were considered to be similar to the O class but with enough differences to warrant the separate Oᴮ classification. No. 11 became Oᴮ 455 and No. 12 became Oᴮ 456, and they ended their days working around Napier. Oᴮ 456 was retired in September 1929, and was followed in March 1931 by Oᴮ 455, which had survived to be one of the final operating locomotives of WMR heritage, along with NC 461 and Uᴰ 465, both of which were withdrawn in the same month.
context_section_description: The Oᴮ class was the first class of steam locomotives constructed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR) in New Zealand. The class consisted of two locomotives ordered in 1888, and they entered service in September of that year as WMR No.'s 11 and 12. 
  When the WMR and its locomotive fleet was acquired by the government and merged into the national New Zealand Railways (NZR) in 1908, the two locomotives were considered to be similar to the O class but with enough differences to warrant the separate Oᴮ classification. No. 11 became Oᴮ 455 and No. 12 became Oᴮ 456, and they ended their days working around Napier. Oᴮ 456 was retired in September 1929, and was followed in March 1931 by Oᴮ 455, which had survived to be one of the final operating locomotives of WMR heritage, along with NC 461 and Uᴰ 465, both of which were withdrawn in the same month.
caption: Wellington and Manawatu Railway 11, circa 1904
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