BNCR Class N

The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Class N was a class of 0-4-0 saddle tank dock engines that worked on the lines of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners in the north east of Ireland. Number 42, the first of the class, was built by Sharp, Stewart and Company at Manchester in 1874 as works number 2444, after the opening of the Belfast Central Railway in 1872 had increased freight traffic along the Belfast quays. It had outside cylinders, a very forward dome and a short wheelbase suited to the tight dockyard curves, and it was rebuilt with a cab in 1901 and scrapped in June 1925. A second, similar engine, number 16, was built by the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee in 1914.