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GCR/LNER Robinson "D9" Class 4-4-0

**Class Types**
GCR Class	11B (As built with smaller boiler and slide valves)
GCR Class	11C (Reboilered with larger boiler and deeper firebox)
GCR Class	11D (Same boiler as 11C but superheated. Also had piston valves fitted - final variation)

General

Designer

John Robinson

Introduced

1901

Pre-Grouping Company

Great Central Railway

Grouping Company

London and North Eastern Railway

Description (1957)

Class D9. Great Central 6'9" 4-4-0's, a class of 40 engines built by Robinson between 1901 and 1904 and later rebuilt with larger boilers. Of the 26 survivors to come into British Railways' stock, all were withdrawn by 1950.

Wheel Arrangement

4-4-0

Number Built as D9

First in Service

10/1901

Last in Service

07/1950

Manufacturers

Manufacturer	Total
Sharp Stewart	30
Vulcan Foundry	10

Orders

Builder	Sponsor	Order #	Date	Size
Sharp Stewart		E1182a	01/1901	5
Sharp Stewart		E1182b	01/1902	20
Sharp Stewart		E1198	01/1903	5

**Illustration**

Copyright: John Law

**Power**
Variant Introduced	1901

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