Image: GER T26 LNER E4 Bressingham

Description: Great Eastern Railway T26 (or E4) No.490 (BR 62785), near to Bressingham, Norfolk, Great Britain. Class T26 2-4-0 Two cylinders 17.5 inch diameter; coupled wheel diameter 5 ft 4 inchs; grate area 18 square foot. Working pressure 160 lb, tractive effort 14,700 lb, weight 40.3 tons, length 48 ft 6 inches. Designed by James Holden (locomotive superintendent at the GER July 1885-1907)and built at Stratford works in January 1895. It was designed for cross-country excursion and slow main-line duties. Withdrawn in 1959 and renovated at Stratford Works in GER blue for a life in preservation. The locomotive is on loan from the national railway museum. They were common in the area, in 1922 the allocation was Norwich (23), Cambridge (14), King's Lynn (14), Bury St. Edmunds (10), Stratford (8), March (5), Peterborough (4), Ipswich (3), Yarmouth Vauxhall (3), Dereham (3), Southend (2), Wells (2), Bishop's Stortford (2), Wickford (1), Colchester (1), Sudbury (1), Lowestoft (1), Saffron Walden (1), Huntingdon (1), and Wisbech (1). For more information see <a title="http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e4.shtml" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lner.info/locos/E/e4.shtml">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/>
Title: GER T26 LNER E4 Bressingham
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