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Name: NER NO 5
Launched: 1881
Completed: 1881
Builder: JT Eltringham, South Shields
Yard Number: 92
Dimensions: 24grt, 16nrt, 50.2 x 12.5 x 7.6ft
Engines: SL2cyl (8 & 8 x 9ins), 25nhp; (1912: 2cyl (16 & 16 x 11ins))
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields; (1912: Harfield & Co, Blaydon Iron Works)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 84528
History:
20/09/1881 North Eastern Railway Co, York (W Bulmer, manager); registered at West Hartlepool
21/08/1898 T Pickering appointed manager
03/12/1898 T Chalt appointed manager
1899 T Gray & Co Ltd, Hull; registered at Hull
1903 George Fenby Hiles, Hull
1904 Sydney West, South Shields
1907 Joshua Bagnall, Newcastle
1907 John Briggs, Heaton, Newcastle
1913 Unknown Austrian owner, Roumania
No later history known
Comments: 1912: Re-engined with an engine manufactured in 1897
Thanks to Bill Harvey for the above details