The Great Northern Railway (GNR) No. 1 class Stirling Single is a class of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. Designed by Patrick Stirling, they are characterised by a single pair of large (8 ft 1 in) driving wheels which led to the nickname "eight-footer".

Following is a list of the dates and numbers of the 16 engines comprised in this group : — Date. Note that locomotives taken into the LNER were allocated the class G2. There are no preserved locomotives of this type. This gallery is for members only. If you have a membership, please log in. If not, you can definitely get access!

Stirling built his engines for speed and power, in order to handle some of the continuous gradients on the main York-London GNR line, and to compete against the Midland Railway and L&NWR in the Races to the North. Stirling joined the GNR in 1866 having previously been Locomotive Superintendent of the Glasgow & South Western Railway since 1853.

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) ‘8ft Singles’ were a type of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work between London King’s Cross and York by Patrick Stirling. It is characterised by a large single driving wheel allowing it to haul trains of around 150 tons at an average speed of 51mph while reaching speeds of up to 85mph and ...

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) No. 1 class Stirling Single is a class of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. Designed by Patrick Stirling, they are characterised by a single pair of large driving wheels which led to the nickname "eight-footer".

Designed by Patrick Stirling in 1870, they were characterized by a single pair of large driving wheels which let to the class having the nickname “Eight-Footer”. Originally the locomotives were designed to haul up to 26 passenger carriages (GNR 6W Stock) at an average speed of 47 mph.

By adding a two-axle leading bogie, guidance at higher speeds was improved and the increased weight was better distributed. The driving wheels were eight feet and one inch in diameter, equivalent to 2,464 mm.

These elegant machines, with their single 8ft 1in diameter driving wheels, handled fast trains on the East Coast route for many years, with the last not being retired until the early years of the 20th Century. Pioneer Stirling ‘Single’ No. 1 was set aside for preservation in 1907.

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The Great Northern Railway (GNR) No. 1 Class Stirling Single, is a 4-2-2 type of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. Designed by Patrick Stirling, they are characterized by a single pair of large driving wheels which led to the nickname "eight-footer".