The GER Class E22 was a class of twenty steam locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923 and received the LNER classification J65.
History These had coupled wheels, (quoting S. D. Holden's personal locomotive register) cylinders and were lighter than the T18 (LNER J66) class.
+ Table of orders and numbers Year Order Builder Quantity GER Nos. LNER Nos. Notes 1889 E22 Stratford Works 10 150–159 7150–7159 1893 B32 Stratford Works 10 245–254 7245–7254
They were reboilered between 1889 and 1912. The Macallan variable blastpipe was removed from 1924. They ran as s on the Fenchurch Street to Blackwall service and were sometimes known as Blackwall Tanks. They operated on the Stoke Ferry, Eye and Mid-Suffolk Light Railway branches. Withdrawals started in 1930, and by 1937 fifteen had been withdrawn, but there were no more retirements for ten years. In 1944 the five surviving locomotives were renumbered 8211–8215 in order of construction. These last five were withdrawn between 1947 and 1956, when the class became extinct.
+ Table of withdrawals Year Quantity inservice atstart of year Quantitywithdrawn Locomotive numbers 1930 20 1 7246 1931 19 3 7153, 7245, 7251 1932 16 2 7154, 7158 1935 14 2 7152, 7252 1936 12 1 7248 1937 11 6 7150, 7151, 7156, 7159, 7249, 7254 1947 5 1 8212 (ex-7157) 1948 4 1 68213 (ex-7247) 1949 3 1 68215 (ex-7253) 1953 2 1 68211 (ex-7155) 1956 1 1 68214 (ex-7250)
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External links — Great Eastern Railway Society The Holden J65 (GER Class E22) 0-6-0T Locomotives — LNER Encyclopedia