An N.E.R. 0-4-4T sits across the 4 foot track instead of on it, I can’t quite make out its running number, but it could be 96 – a turn-of-the-century image. The engineering team are on hand, the jib of the lifter can just be seen behind the locomotive. This is one for the rivet-counters out there – what class of locomotive is this? Suggestions of a G5 from Robert McMurray. Eric Johnson told the Archive: “N.E.R. class “O”, no 505. de-railed at Boulby.
Thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.
LNER Class G5 was simply a reclassification of NER Class O so both the current suggestions are equivalently valid. If as suggested around the turn of the century then it is definitely a class O. A later updated version of the class O was I think Class L, that would date the photo post 1910-ish