GNR Class J14

The Great Northern Railway Class J14, reclassified J53 by the London and North Eastern Railway, was a class of 52 saddle tank steam locomotives of the 0-6-0ST wheel arrangement, designed by Patrick Stirling and built between 1892 and 1897, at Doncaster Works and by Neilson and Company. They were close relatives of the GNR Class J13, differing in their boilers and in lacking a steam dome. Seventeen J14s were built with condensing equipment for working over the Metropolitan Railway, and ten more had it fitted in 1900; these locomotives carried extra lamp irons for Southern Railway running, later removed or added as they changed duties. Five were rebuilt with G2 0-4-4 boilers, and four of those were rebuilt as J13s between 1928 and 1932, while No. 3928 was withdrawn in 1935.