Tags: Locomotive.
North London Railway (NLR) Crane Tank was a 0-4-2ST steam locomotive crane tank type. Originally built in 1858 as a Sharp-Stewart 0-4-0ST it was rebuilt into an 0-4-2ST with a steam crane carried by the trailing truck in 1872. NLR Number 29A; it was subsequently inherited by the LNWR in 1908 who gave it the number 2896 in turn the LMS in 1923 (No. 7217 later placed on duplicate list as 27217) and British Railways in 1948 (BR No. 58865).