London & North Eastern Railway (War Department) 0-6-0ST No. 68077 (71466)
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK 		Location: Spa Valley Railway
Status: Stored
Posted: Jun 29, 2025 @ 08:06:00 by Russell Newman
The ex LNER J94 Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 68077, is currently in storage at the Spa Valley Railway for the time being while it awaits full complition of its overhaul once current projects are completed and work can resume on it.
Posted: Apr 24, 2021 @ 10:04:50 by Russell Newman
One of only two genuine WD Austerity 0-6-0ST’s that were bought by the London & North Eastern Railway as Class J94 to survive into preservation out of 75 locomotives that were sold to the LNER and classified as J94. Built in 1947 by Andrew Barclay in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in Scotland and starting out as WD No. 71466 she was sold to the LNER in the same year she was built and was giving the LNER Number No. 8077 and from 1948 was giving the British Railways No. 68077. She spent much of her working life on shunting and short goods workings round North London and round Lincolnshire being moving to Immingham, Hornsey, Boston and Colwick sheds from 1948 until 1962. In August 1949 like all the other J94’s with the LNER it was fitted with an extended coal bunker. Withdrawn from British Railways service in December 1962 she was sold off to work a little longer with the National Coal Board (NCB) for use in the South Yorkshire Area. Now Numbered No. 14 No. 68077 worked at Maltby Main Colliery until 1970 when she was placed into storage until 1971 when she was sold for preservation to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. No. 68077 was steamed shortly after this but it required attention and the fitting of vacuum brakes before it could even haul any passenger trains there. She was sold again to a private owner who moved her to the Spa Valley Railway in Kent in 2005 where No. 68077 awaits overhaul which the Spa Valley plans to do so in the not to distant future.
Posted: Jun 19, 2008 @ 13:06:38 by Steve Frost
Phil's photo shows the J94 class as I remember them shunting in West Hartlepool docks. Well, maybe they weren't quite so clean and they were mostly fitted with the higher coal bunker, which the NCB removed from this example. What makes this special is the fact that it one of only two survivors that are genuinely ex LNER locos. There are others that are painted up into BR livery and carry BR numbers, but this is the real thing!
Posted: Jun 19, 2008 @ 13:06:49 by Phil Horton
Ex London & North Eastern Railway, BR No. 68077 when stored at Oxenhope on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in September 1989