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The Great Eastern Railway was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped i
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Memorial at Liverpool Street station to GER staff who died during the First World War, unveiled in 1922 by Sir Henry Wilson, who was assassinated by Irish Republican Army gunmen on his way home from the unveiling ceremony.
The exterior of Liverpool Street station (1896)
Former GER Class S69 at Liverpool Street Station locomotive yard (1948)
GER Class S69
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The Great Eastern Railway Class S69, also known as 1500 Class, and later classified B12 by the London and North Eastern Railway is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed to haul express passenger
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…a 10-long-ton (10 t) coal truck during his shift. Turntables were generally small – in 1900 the longest was 50 feet (15 m) – enough to turn the later B12 Class 4-6-0 locomotive. By 1932, with the advent of bigger locomotives and the working of other companies' locomotives onto GE territory, turntables had grown, with the major…
B12/4 4-6-0 No. 61504 at Keith Locomotive Depot 1948
B12/3 No. 61580 at Grantham 28 March 1956.
No. 8572 preserved