GNR Class J9

The Great Northern Railway Class J9 was a class of two-cylinder 0-6-0 steam locomotives built in 1896 for goods work. The design was based on the Class J10 but had wider cabs and a different boiler diameter. Ten were built in 1896, and the J10 engines were later refitted with the J9 boiler. On the Great Northern the engines worked mainly heavily graded lines near Leeds and Bradford and were nicknamed the West Riding Goods Engines. When the company was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923, seven of the original J9 engines were still in service together with three converted J10s, and both groups were renamed LNER Class J7. Between 1924 and 1926 five received the 4 foot 8 inch boilers that were also being fitted to the Class J3, the LNER relegated the class to local traffic from 1927, and the last, No. 4027, was withdrawn from Ardsley in 1936. None was preserved.