Metropolitan Railway E Class

L48 at Neasden, 1961.

The Metropolitan Railway E Class is a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotives.

A total of seven locomotives were built between 1896 and 1901 by the Metropolitan Railway themselves at their Neasden Works. One locomotive became Metropolitan Railway no. 1 and was a replacement for A Class (4-4-0T) No. 1 which had been scrapped. The other locomotives were numbered 77 to 82.

The E Class were displaced from the main passenger trains by the 4-4-4T H Class in 1920, moving to lesser jobs such as trains on the Chesham Branch.

Following the second world war one E Class locomotive was regularly stationed at Rickmansworth station to cover a failure of LNER locomotives working Metropolitan Line trains north of this point.

The first locomotive was scrapped in 1935 before it could be given a new London Transport number, something that only four locomotives would receive. No. 1 became L44, while nos. 77, 80 and 81 became L46 - L48. L44 (No. 1) survived in use until 1965 and is now preserved at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

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• Information about No. 1

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