LNER Robinson04






GCR/LNER/BR O4
Designed by Robinson of the Great Central Railway for heavy fright work and introduced in 1911 a quantity 130 were built up to 1920.
The design was adopted by the Railway Operating Division (ROD) of the Royal Engineers who ordered 521 locomotives which were built between 1917 and 1919.
After the war the locomotives surplus to military requirements were offered for sale some 100 going to the GWR and 50 to the LNWR (becoming LMS engines in 1923) and after being in storage the LNER bought a further 273 being added to the 130 taken over from the GCR.
During their LNER ownership many received new boilers and cabs.
58 members of the class were rebuilt by Thompson becoming class O1.
The locomotives could be found From Newcastle to Cambridge and Immingham to Manchester working on freight trains mainly on coal and mineral trains.



BR Number series 63570-63920

The last locomotive was withdrawn from BR stock in 1966

One has been preserved.




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