NER Class S3

NER Class S3
LNER Class B16

No. 61469 at Croxdale 12 June 1954

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Vincent Raven
Builder	NER Darlington
Build date	1919-1924
Total produced	70

Specifications
Configuration	4-6-0
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Leading dia	3 ft 1 in (0.940 m)
Driver diameter	5 ft 8 in (1.727 m)
Wheelbase	27 ft 8 in (8.43 m) engine 12 ft 8 in (3.86 m) tender 52 ft 5.8 in (15.997 m) total
Axle load	20 long tons (20 t; 22 short tons)
Loco weight	B16/1, 77.7 long tons (78.9 t; 87.0 short tons) B16/2, 79.2 long tons (80.5 t; 88.7 short tons) B16/3, 78.95 long tons (80.22 t; 88.42 short tons)
Tender weight	46.6 long tons (47.3 t; 52.2 short tons)
Loco & tender weight	B16/1, 124.3 long tons (126.3 t; 139.2 short tons) B16/2, 125.8 long tons (127.8 t; 140.9 short tons) B16/3, 125.55 long tons (127.56 t; 140.62 short tons)
Fuel type	Coal
Firebox: • Firegrate area	27 sq ft (2.5 m²)
Boiler	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) diameter
Boiler pressure	180 psi (1.2 MPa)
Heating surface	1,958 sq ft (181.9 m²)
• Tubes	866 sq ft (80.5 m²)
• Flues	534 sq ft (49.6 m²)
• Firebox	166 sq ft (15.4 m²)
Superheater: • Heating area	392 sq ft (36.4 m²)
Cylinders	three
Cylinder size	18 ¹⁄₂ in × 26 in (470 mm × 660 mm)
Valve gear	Stephenson

Performance figures
Tractive effort	30,312 lbf (134.83 kN)

Career
Operators	North Eastern Railway, London & North Eastern Railway, British Railways
Retired	1958-1964
Disposition	All scrapped

The North Eastern Railway Class S3, classified B16 by the LNER, was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed for mixed traffic work. It was designed by Vincent Raven and introduced in 1920. The earlier members of this class were fitted with Westinghouse Brakes - all of this equipment was removed during the 1930s.

Post-NER

Seventy S3/B16 locomotives were built between 1919 and 1924. The NER began numbering this class in the range No. 840 through to No. 943 (though not contiguously), those built after late 1922 (from No. 2363 onwards) directly receiving their LNER number. In 1923 all seventy locomotives passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). Some of the existing members were subsequently rebuilt, as shown below (the initially built locomotives being re-designated class B16/1. Seven were rebuilt by Gresley, becoming class B16/2 and seventeen, by Thompson, designated class B16/3). Under the LNER re-numbering scheme, of 1946, they received numbers 1400-1468. Sixty-nine passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and they were again re-numbered in the sequence 61400-61478. (Numbers 61400 to 61409 were directly re-numbered as 61469 to 61478). One locomotive, No. 925, was badly damaged (along with A4 4469 Sir Ralph Wedgwood) during a German air-raid on York, 29 April 1942 and was subsequently scrapped. The last, of any variety of B16, was scrapped in 1964 and none have been preserved.

Sub-classes

B16/2 No.846 at Sunderland station 27 June 1953.

B16/1 Introduced 1920, NER design by Vincent Raven with inside Stephenson valve gear.
B16/2 Introduced 1937, LNER rebuild of B16/1 by Nigel Gresley with Walschaerts valve gear on the outside cylinders and Gresley conjugated valve gear on the inside cylinder.
B16/3 Introduced 1944, LNER rebuild of B16/1 by Edward Thompson with three sets of Walschaerts valve gear.

Accidents and incidents

On 27 June 1928, locomotive No. 2369 was involved in a head-on collision with an excursion train at Darlington, County Durham whilst it was shunting a parcels train. Twenty-five people were killed and 45 were injured.^[1]
On 5 January 1946, locomotive No. 842 was hauling a freight train which became divided on the East Coast Main Line in County Durham. The train was brought to a halt at Browney Signalbox, but the rear portion crashed into it. The wreckage fouled signal cables, giving a false clear to a passenger train coming in the opposite direction. This train then collided with the wreckage. Ten people were killed and eight were severely injured.^[2]

References

↑ Hoole, Ken (1982). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 3. Redruth: Atlantic Books. pp. 27, 35. ISBN 0-906899-05-2.
↑ Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. ISBN 0-906899-50-8.

Source

Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, 1948 edition, part 4, page 10

External links

LNER encyclopedia
Railuk database B16/1, B16/2 and B16/3

London and North Eastern Railway locomotives

Pre-grouping railway designs:

Great Central:	A5 B1/B18 B2/B19 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C4 C5 C13 C14 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10 D11 D12 E2 E3 E8 F1 F2 G3 J8 J9 J10 J11 J12 J13 J58 J59 J60 J61 J62 J63 L1/L3 M1 N4 N5 N6 O4 O5 Q4 S1 X4 Y2

Great Eastern:	B12 D13 D14 D15 D16 E4 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 G4 J14 J15 J16 J17 J18 J19 J20 J65 J66 J67 J68 J69 J70 N7 Y4 Y5 Y6 Z4/J92

Great North of Scotland:	D38 D39 D40 D41 D42 D43 D44 D45 D46 D47 D48 G10 J90 J91 Z4 Z5

Great Northern:	A1 C1 C2 C12 D1 D2 D3 D4 E1 G1 G2 J1 J2 J3 J4 J5 J6 J7 J50 J51 J52 J53 J54 J55 J56 J57 K1 K2 K3 N1 N2 O1 O2 Q1 Q2 Q3 R1

North British:	C10 C11 C15 C16 D25 D26 D27 D28 D29 D30 D31 D32 D33 D34 D35 D36 D50 D51 E7 G7 G8 G9 J31 J32 J33 J34 J35 J36 J37 J81 J82 J83 J84 J85 J86 J88 N14 N15 Y9 Y10

North Eastern:	A2 A6 A7 B13 B14 B15 B16 C6 C7 C8 D17/1 D17/2 D18 D19 D20 D21 D22 D23 E5 E6 F8 G5 G6 H1 J21 J22 J24 J25 J26 J27 J71 J72 J73 J74 J76 J77 J78 J79 N8 N9 N10 Q5 Q6 Q7 T1 X1 X2 X3 Y7 Y8 EB1 EE1 EF1 ES1

North Eastern (ex Hull & Barnsley)	D24 J23 J28 J75 J80 N11 N12 N13 Q10

LNER designs:

Gresley (1923–1941):	A1 A3 A4 A8 B17 D49 J38 J39 J50 K4 P1 P2 U1 V1 V2 V3 V4 W1 EM1

Thompson (1941–1946):	A1 A2/1 A2/2 A2/3 B1 B2 K1 K5 L1 O1 Q1

Peppercorn (1946–1947):	A1 A2 K1

Other designs:

Proposed designs:

P10 2-8-2T (Nov 1929)
B 4-6-0 (Nov 1936)
? 4-8-2 (1939)
Q 0-8-0 (June 1930)
D 4-4-0 (1943)
? 4-8-4 (Feb 1946)
? 4-8-2 (Feb 1946)
K 2-6-0 (Aug 1947)

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