GNR Class J22 (LNER J5)

The Great Northern Railway Class J22, which the London and North Eastern Railway classified as J5, was a class of twenty medium-powered 0-6-0 goods steam locomotives designed by Henry Ivatt. Two batches of ten were built at Doncaster Works in 1909 and 1910 to meet the growing goods and coal traffic of the railway. They had the same dimensions as the mixed traffic Class J21 (LNER J1), except for smaller coupled wheels of 5 ft 2 in. They were built saturated, with boilers set to 170 psi and soon raised to 175 psi, and only two of them were later given superheaters. The class was soon overtaken by the larger superheated J22 locomotives with piston valves that the LNER called J6, and no more J5s were built. They worked coal trains from New England to London, and under the LNER were concentrated at Retford and Colwick, hauling coal trains in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfields. Withdrawals began in 1953 and the last was withdrawn in 1955, and none was preserved.