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If you were to go trainspotting in the Northeast of England between 1906 and 1967, you would see one of these engines. The North Eastern Railway P3 Class was a slight variation of the P2 0-6-0 goods engine built by Wilson Worsdell. The main differences between these and their predecessors was a deeper firebox, but they were essentially the same engines. A first run of 80 engines were built by Darlington works and contracted out to Robert Stephenson, North British, and Beyer Peacock, with production lasting between 1906 and 1909 in five batches. Another batch of 25 were built by Darlington works with Schmidt Superheaters, and piston valves. A third and final run of 10 were built by the LNER after grouping, classifying them as J27. The J27s were a staple of freight and mineral traffic in the northeast, as well as being allocated to former Great Eastern sheds and in Scotland as well, with their appearances around Edinburgh becoming common during World War II. After the war, J27s were pulled from goods duties, but remained on mineral trains into Nationalization and into the 1960s, when more than 30 remained in service in 1966 hauling coal from the fields to shipping staithes in southern Northumberland. The last J27 was withdrawn from Blythe shed in September 1967. One member of the class is preserved, Number 65894, purchased in November 1967 as the first engine owned by NELPG (North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group) As of 2021 it is currently in steam.

Description
If you were to go trainspotting in the Northeast of England between 1906 and 1967, you would see one of these engines. The North Eastern Railway P3 Class was a slight variation of the P2 0-6-0 goods engine built by Wilson Worsdell. The main differences between these and their predecessors was a deeper firebox, but they were essentially the same engines. A first run of 80 engines were built by Darlington works and contracted out to Robert Stephenson, North British, and Beyer Peacock, with production lasting between 1906 and 1909 in five batches. Another batch of 25 were built by Darlington works with Schmidt Superheaters, and piston valves. A third and final run of 10 were built by the LNER after grouping, classifying them as J27. The J27s were a staple of freight and mineral traffic in the northeast, as well as being allocated to former Great Eastern sheds and in Scotland as well, with their appearances around Edinburgh becoming common during World War II. After the war, J27s were pulled from goods duties, but remained on mineral trains into Nationalization and into the 1960s, when more than 30 remained in service in 1966 hauling coal from the fields to shipping staithes in southern Northumberland. The last J27 was withdrawn from Blythe shed in September 1967. One member of the class is preserved, Number 65894, purchased in November 1967 as the first engine owned by NELPG (North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group) As of 2021 it is currently in steam.