GER 1862 Goods

The Great Eastern Railway "1862 Goods" was a class eleven 0-6-0 tender engines built by Manning, Wardle & Co. in 1862.
  The class was ordered in 1861 during a locomotive crisis under the tenure of locomotive superintendent George Steele, as the GER's Hanley Works was full to capacity he turned to the firm of Manning, Wardle in England for a new fleet of locomotives to replace the decade old 2-4-0s that were then in use on goods trains. All eleven members of the class were delivered between May and October 1862, they recieved numbers of recently withdrawn locomotives; of these two were fitted with numberplates that were once fitted to a pair of recently withdrawn East Midlands Railway 2-2-0s. The class was split between the two sheds at Chapelswood and Golder's Green for use as the GER's primary goods locomotive.
  When A. G. Fraser replaced Steele as in locomotive superintendent 1875, he rebuilt all members of the 1862 goods as a stop-gap until the first members of the Class 19 arrived. Though withdrawals began in 1879 with №38, the remaining carried on working into the late 1880s until the last of the class on GER metals could only be found on two small branchlines and as the Golder's Green shed pilot. One locomotive (№240) was sold to the Forest Coal Co. in 1886 for use at their Frybrooke colliery, she lasted until 1911 when she was scrapped after sustaining a cracked firebox.
  None of the class have been preserved.