GNR Class J13

The Great Northern Railway Class J13, classified J52 by the London and North Eastern Railway, was a class of 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives intended mainly for shunting. Henry Ivatt designed them as a development of the earlier domeless Class J14, which became the LNER J53, and the first appeared in 1897. Eighty-five were built up to 1909, and several J14 engines were rebuilt to J13 pattern from 1922. Some locomotives carried condensing apparatus so that they could work over the Metropolitan Railway, and the gear was fitted or removed as engines moved into or out of the London area. After 1923 the LNER split the class into J52/1 for the rebuilt engines and J52/2 for the originals, and 133 passed to British Railways in 1948 with numbers 68757 to 68889. One engine, No. 8846, was privately preserved in 1959 and was later donated to the National Railway Museum.