GNR Class C2

The Great Northern Railway Class C2, classified C12 by the London and North Eastern Railway, was a class of 4-4-2 tank locomotives built for the Great Northern Railway between 1898 and 1907. Designed by Henry Ivatt, the engines worked local and commuter passenger trains in Yorkshire and in north London. The GNR numbered them 1009, 1010, 1013 to 1020 and 1501 to 1550, and in 1921 No. 1009 became 1009A because its number was needed for a new Class H4 2-6-0. All passed to the LNER in 1923, which added 3000 to each number, and a post-war scheme renumbered the remaining fifty as 7350 to 7399. In 1948 the surviving 49 passed to British Railways, who prefixed a 6 to give 67350 to 67399. The whole class was withdrawn in 1957 and 1958 and every engine was scrapped.