100 years ago The London and North Eastern Railway built the Gresley Class U1 unique locomotive, a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route.
It was both the longest and the most powerful steam locomotive ever to run in Britain. The Garratt locomotive was based on two Gresley GNR class O2 2-8-0s. Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester tendered for the construction of two such locomotives, although the order was subsequently amended to just a single loco which was delivered in summer 1925.
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