JGR Class 5300

The JGR Class 5300 and the related Class 5400, 5450 and 5480 (originally the Nippon Railway Class Pbt2/4) were 4-4-0 American-type steam locomotive built for the JGR from 1882 to 1890.
==History==
The 5300s were used mainly as freight locomotives and were some of the first imported steam locomotives that were used in Japan in volume. Forty-two locomotives were produced by Beyer, Peacock and Company, Dübs and Co. and Neilson and Company and imported into Japan from 1882 to 1890. 
Little else survives about the locomotives' service life. The locomotives were later renamed to Class 9300 in 1909 with the establishment of a formal rule regarding locomotive naming. The locomotives were retired in 1923. From 1921 to 1922, twenty-two locomotives were converted into Class 960 tank locomotives to be used on the Tobu Railway where they served until the 1960s. 
No locomotives survived into preservation.
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