NER Class T2

The North Eastern Railway Class T2, classified as Class Q6 by the LNER, is a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotive designed for heavy freight, especially for hauling long coal trains to various collieries in the North Eastern region of the UK, with a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour. 120 were built at Darlington Works and Armstrong Whitworth between 1913 and 1921 to the design of Vincent Raven, based on the NER Class T and T1 (LNER Q5). The batch of fifty built by Armstrong Whitworth from 1919 were A-W's first locomotives to be built, after the conversion of their Scotswood works from ordnance to peacetime production.
==Numbering==
All passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were numbered 63340-63459.
==Disposal==
63372 was withdrawn in 1960 after an accident. General withdrawals were from 1963 to 1967. 63395 has survived into preservation.
==Preservation==
One, 2238 (LNER 1946 number 3395; BR 63395) has survived to preservation on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It is owned by the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG), who purchased from Hughes Bolckow scrapyard in 1967, and was withdrawn from service in January 2017 to await boiler overhaul. This overhaul was completed in September 2018, with the locomotive being completed just in time to visit the Severn Valley Railway for their Autumn Steam Gala.
==Gallery==
File:LNER Q6 Darlington Works 22.03.59.jpg|LNER Q6 at Darlington Works after overhaul in March 1959
File:63407 at West Hartlepool shed.jpg|63407 at West Hartlepool shed, June 1967
File:63995 at Sunderland shed.jpg|63395 at Sunderland shed, June 1967
File:63395 Great Central Railway.jpg|No. 63395 on the preserved Great Central Railway
File:Middlesbrough Locomotive Depot geograph-2346283-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
File:Steam locomotive 63395 at Levisham station - geograph.org.uk - 1611801.jpg
File:North Yorkshire Moors Railway LNER Gala 2008 066.JPG
File:T2 2238.jpg
==External links==
*LNER encyclopedia
*Class Q6 Details at Rail UK
*North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group
*North Yorkshire Moors Railway
*North Eastern Railway Class T2 at Eisenbahn in Großbritannien de
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