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rail transport

London and North Eastern Railway

Dissolved 1948

Headquarters: London
Founded: 1923
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: author not stated · Public domain · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

556

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What London and North Eastern Railway is

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The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region.

Quoted from on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: rail transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: London
Formed in: —
Founded: 1923
Dissolved: 1948
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.5072, -0.1275

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: —
Average vessel age: 92.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1934
Newest vessel on record: 1934
Largest vessel by tonnage: 556
Average tonnage: 556
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to London and North Eastern Railway. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

By shipbuilder

William Gray & Company1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
PS Wingfield Castle	5392018	Unclassified	—	1934	556	—	—	William Gray & Company

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How London and North Eastern Railway compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, London and North Eastern Railway is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which London and North Eastern Railway ranks 38th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1923, London and North Eastern Railway is 103 years old. This directory holds 57 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.