LNER Class Y3 [SEP] manufacturer
LNER Class Y3
The LNER Class Y3 was a class of 0-4-0 geared steam locomotives built by Sentinel Waggon Works for the London and North Eastern Railway and introduced in 1927. They passed into British Railways ownership in 1948 and were numbered 68154-68185. At least one was based at Immingham in 1950.
Power unit.
The superheated vertical water-tube boiler and the engine were similar to those used in Sentinel steam wagons. The engines had poppet valves and reversing was by sliding camshaft. The
shunter
- LNER Class Y3 – Sentinel shunter
- LNER Class Y7 – NER Class H
- LNER Class Y10 – Sentinel shunter
- LNER Class Y11 – Simplex 0-4-0 petrol locomotive "(later British Rail 15097–15099)"
Post-Nationalisation.
British Railways continued to build LNER designs (the B1 and L1 classes in particular) immediately after Nationalisation. Remarkably, it even built a new series of shunting locomotives (J72 class) to a pre-Grouping design (of the North Eastern