NBR D class 0-6-0T

The NBR D Class, later LNER Class J83, was a class of 0-6-0 tank locomotives designed by Matthew Holmes for the North British Railway for short distance freight, station pilot and heavy shunting duties. Forty were delivered in 1900 and 1901, twenty each from Neilson and Company and Sharp, Stewart and Company. They had inside cylinders and piston valves worked by Stephenson valve gear, and were numbered from 795 on the NBR, so they are sometimes called the 795 class. They proved highly successful, with only three failing to complete a million miles in service and number 9830 managing two million. As the second largest class of tank engine on the railway after the NBR A class they were seen across the whole network, and all but one passed to British Railways in 1948 as numbers 68442 to 68481 before diesel shunters displaced them in the 1950s and the last was withdrawn and scrapped in 1962. Hornby has sold an OO gauge model since 1983.