User:Tony May/LNWR Class G1

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Class G1 was a class of 0-8-0 steam locomotives. Superheated version of the LNWR Class G.

Engines were either built from new or rebuilt from previous classes:

Numbering is somewhat complicated. The LNWR used a numbering system based on the lowest available number, with the result the the numbers were scattered through the stock book. The LMS renumbered the engines into a more logical series, however they also then continued to rebuild engines, which retained their numbers originally assigned by the LMS.

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Source	Dates (re)built	Total (re)built	(Re)built by LNWR	LNWR No(s)	Rebuilt by LMS	LMS No(s)	Notes
Prototype Class G	1912	1	1	2653	0	9154
New construction	1912-1918	170	170	...	0	9155-9334
Class B	1917-1927	91	46	?	45	?
Class E	1917-1924	18	12	...	6	...
Class F	1921-1924	10	6	1036, 1038, 2570, 2114, 2573, 1369	4	initially: 9349/65/7/72/3/86.
Class D	1925-1934	63	0	n/a	63	9002-64
Class C	1925-1927	5	0	n/a	5	8953/4/62/4/6
Class G	?	91	0	n/a	91	9077-9144
Total:	1912-1934	449	235	see above	214	see above

Some were rebuilt back from Class G2a to Class G1 as they passed through heavy overhaul and received lower pressure boilers.

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Further reading

• Bob Essery & David Jenkinson An Illustrated Review of LMS Locomotives Vol. 2 Absorbed Pre-Group Classes Western and Central Divisions
• Edward Talbot, The London & North Western Railway Eight-Coupled Goods Engines
• Willie Yeadon, Yeadon's Compendium of LNWR Locomotives Vol 2 Goods Tender Engines