NBR A class

The NBR A class was a standard design of 0-6-2 tank locomotive drawn up by William P. Reid for freight work on the North British Railway in Scotland. The London and North Eastern Railway later treated the locomotives as two separate classes, N14 and N15. The first six, built by the North British Locomotive Company and numbered 858 to 863, appeared in 1909 with inside cylinders and piston valves worked by Stephenson valve gear, and were withdrawn between 1947 and 1954. A further 53 followed from the same builder between 1910 and 1917 with longer cabs and shorter bunkers, then ten more in 1920. A last batch of ten was on order from Robert Stephenson and Company when the railway became part of the LNER in 1923, and those engines were delivered between January and March 1923. Some were fitted with Westinghouse brakes and used to bank trains up the Cowlairs incline out of Glasgow Queen Street. The remaining locomotives were withdrawn between 1957 and 1962.