| GER Class P43 | |
| Powertype: | Steam |
| Designer: | James Holden |
| Builder: | Stratford Works |
| Ordernumber: | P43 |
| Builddate: | 1898 |
| Totalproduction: | 10 |
| Whytetype: | 4-2-2 |
| Uicclass: | 2′A1 n2 |
| Leadingdiameter: | 3feet |
| Driverdiameter: | 7feet |
| Trailingdiameter: | 4feet |
| Wheelbase: | 43feet |
| Length: | 53feet over buffers |
| Fueltype: | Oil (supplemented by coal) |
| Fuelcap: | Oil: 650impgal715impgal Coal: |
| Watercap: | 2640impgal2790impgal |
| Boilerpressure: | 1602NaN2 |
| Firearea: | 21.4square feet |
| Totalsurface: | 1292.73square feet |
| Cylindercount: | Two, |
| Cylindersize: | 18inchesx26inchesin (xin) |
| Tractiveeffort: | 136392NaN2 |
| Operator: | Great Eastern Railway |
| Fleetnumbers: | 10–19 |
| Withdrawndate: | 1907–1910 |
| Disposition: | All scrapped |
The GER Class P43 was a class of ten 4-2-2 steam tender locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They were the last 'singles' built for the Great Eastern, and the last in service.
Constructed with oil-burning apparatus to speed the elite from the City of London to Cromer, West Runton & Sheringham and capable of reaching North Walsham non-stop in just over two and a half hours.[1] They had 18x inside cylinders and 7feet driving wheels.[2]
Only a single batch of ten was built, all on order P43 in 1898, numbered 10 to 19. They had a short working life, as they were incapable of handling increasing heavy trains. They were withdrawn between 1907 and 1910.
| 1907 | 10 | 2 | align=left | 14, 18 |
| 1908 | 8 | 5 | align=left | 10, 11, 15, 16, 17 |
| 1909 | 3 | 1 | align=left | 19 |
| 1910 | 2 | 2 | align=left | 12, 13 |