LNER J21 (NER Class C): LNER Livery, In Game

This week we are taking a look at the NER Class C, or as it became the LNER J21 under the London & North Eastern Railway.

But first off a quick update from last week. As spotted by Daniel Chambers the version we showed in NER Green was actually the 1970's preserved version of No. 876 and the original version differed from this in a few ways. So here is the corrected version of the NER Green livery - and of course the preserved version will also be included separately.

Our thanks to Daniel for bringing this to our attention and working with us to track down the specific differences.

So, onto the LNER. The first LNER livery was a simple unlined black with the engine number on the tender below the company initials.

Later this was changed with the loco number moving to the side of the cab replacing the small plaque and just the lettering on the tender (We imagine this made it much easier to swap tenders between engines as they didn't require repainting every time!)

From 1941 to 1945 the tender lettering was simplified to NE (a war time cost/time cutting measure?) and the buffers were painted black.

After the war and until British Railways took over the details on tender, cab side and buffer beam were replaced with the much simpler single colour lettering but the black buffers remained.

And that takes us all the way to 1948. Next week we will look at the final years of the J21's during their service under British Railways.