NLR crane tank

The North London Railway crane tank was an 0-4-2ST crane tank locomotive, originally built in 1858 as an 0-4-0ST by Sharp, Stewart and Company for the North and South Western Junction Railway. It quickly passed to the North London Railway, which numbered it 37, then 29 in 1861 and 29A in 1872, the year it was rebuilt as an 0-4-2ST with a steam crane carried on the trailing truck. It later passed to the London and North Western Railway in 1922 as 2896, to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and to British Railways in 1948 as 58865. It was the oldest locomotive inherited by British Railways and, when withdrawn in 1951, the oldest standard gauge engine in service, scrapped at Derby Works in February 1951.