These Robinson 0-6-0s were designed for the Great Central Railway in 1901 as Class 9J, becoming Class J11 for the LNER and then BR. 174 locomotives were built in total - by Neilson, Reid and Co’, Gorton works, Beyer-Peacock, Vulcan Foundry and the Yorkshire Engine Co’. They were nick-named Pom-Poms because their exhaust sounded like machine guns that were used during the Boer War.
They were popular with enginemen as versatile performers on both freight and passenger trains. They had a 2P3F power classification. The whole class was taken into BR stock in 1948 but all had been withdrawn by the end of 1962 and none were preserved. John Dyer photographed various members of the class on the 19 August 1962, at Gorton works and sheds.
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