NER Class V

The NER Class V was a class of twenty steam locomotives of the 4-4-2-wheel arrangement. They were designed by Wilson Worsdell for the North Eastern Railway (NER) as express passenger locomotives.
==History==
In the early part of the twentieth century, the main express passenger services of the NER were mostly being hauled by 4-4-0 locomotives. The newest of these were Class R, thirty of which were built between 1899 and 1901; they were supplemented by the five 4-6-0 locomotives of Class S1 built in 1900–01. Train weights were increasing, and it was clear that a better design was required. The southern partner of the NER in the East Coast route was the Great Northern Railway, which since 1898 had built a number of 4-4-2 locomotives (GNR Class C1) which proved capable of hauling the heaviest expresses of the period; and so Worsdell decided upon the same wheel arrangement for a new class for the NER.
The first ten, built at Gateshead in 1903–04, were assigned Class V; the second ten, built at Darlington in 1910 had some detail differences and were assigned Class V/09 (or V1 according to some sources), the /09 suffix referring to the year that the design was prepared.
Class V were given numbers scattered between 295 and 1794 which were blank at the time. Class V/09 were given numbers 696–705. All twenty passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 Grouping, becoming LNER Class C6, and they retained their numbers on the LNER.
The locomotives were built to haul express passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line between York and Edinburgh Waverley, with a change of locomotives at Newcastle. By the end of 1920, most of the class were allocated to the two main Newcastle-area depots, ten at Gateshead and eight at Heaton; but the remaining two were at York. By Grouping, three had been reallocated to Tweedmouth, and York had gained a further two, leaving seven at Gateshead and six at Heaton. The York engines were mainly used between York and Newcastle; those at Tweedmouth worked between Berwick and Newcastle; but the Gateshead and Heaton engines could be used between Newcastle and York, Newcastle and Leeds, or between Newcastle and Edinburgh.
==Withdrawal==
Withdrawal commenced with no. 532 in January 1943; later that year, the nineteen surviving locomotives were allotted new numbers 2930–48, but by the time the scheme was published, no. 649 (which had been allotted no. 2930) had also been withdrawn, so the new series as published was 2931–48. The actual renumbering did not commence until 1946, by which time several more had been withdrawn, and only seven were ultimately renumbered. Two, LNER nos. 2933 and 2937, remained in service at nationalisation, but both were withdrawn in March 1948 before the British Railways renumbering was prepared.
==Fleet list==
No. 	Builder 	Built 	Class	1920 depot	1943 LNER number	Renumbered 	Withdrawn
532 	Gateshead 	November 1903 	V 	Heaton 	– 	– 	January 1943
649 	Gateshead 	December 1903 	V 	Heaton 	2930 	– 	August 1943
784 	Gateshead 	December 1903 	V 	Heaton 	2931 	November 1946	November 1947
295 	Gateshead 	June 1904 	V 	Gateshead 	2932 	– 	March 1944
1680	Gateshead 	June 1904 	V 	Heaton 	2934 	June 1946 	November 1947
742 	Gateshead 	June 1904 	V 	Heaton 	2933 	October 1946 	March 1948
1753	Gateshead 	August 1904 	V 	Heaton 	2935 	– 	July 1946
1776	Gateshead 	October 1904 	V 	Heaton 	2936 	– 	April 1944
1792	Gateshead 	October 1904 	V 	Heaton 	2937 	November 1946	March 1948
1794	Gateshead 	October 1904 	V 	Gateshead 	2938 	– 	May 1944
696 	Darlington	May 1910 	V/09 	Gateshead 	2939 	December 1946	December 1947
697 	Darlington	May 1910 	V/09 	Gateshead 	2940 	– 	October 1945
698 	Darlington	June 1910 	V/09 	Gateshead 	2941 	December 1946	December 1947
699 	Darlington	June 1910 	V/09 	York 	2942 	– 	July 1944
700 	Darlington	July 1910 	V/09 	Gateshead 	2943 	– 	May 1946
701 	Darlington	July 1910 	V/09 	Gateshead 	2944 	– 	August 1944
702 	Darlington	August 1910 	V/09 	York 	2945 	– 	July 1946
703 	Darlington	August 1910 	V/09 	Gateshead 	2946 	– 	January 1945
704 	Darlington	September 1910	V/09 	Gateshead 	2947 	January 1947 	November 1947
705 	Darlington	September 1910	V/09 	Gateshead 	2948 	– 	December 1943
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