E10 Class

The GER E10 Class was a series of 0-4-4 suburban tank locomotives built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1878, designed by Massey Bromley during his brief tenure as Locomotive Superintendent from 1878 to 1881. They continued the GER's well-established programme of 0-4-4T suburban tank construction that had begun with Johnson's 134 Class in 1872, providing additional suburban capacity for the Liverpool Street inner-suburban services that were growing rapidly in the late 1870s.

The E10 Class was a development of the 140 Class that Bromley had also introduced in 1880, using essentially the same inside-cylinder 0-4-4T configuration with minor variations in boiler and cylinder dimensions. The 5 ft coupled driving wheels and trailing bogie arrangement gave good tracking at the moderate speeds of suburban working, and the side-tank configuration provided water capacity for the short suburban turn-rounds that characterised GER inner suburban operation. The class worked the GER's inner-suburban services from Liverpool Street and Stratford during the early 1880s.

As traffic intensified through the 1880s and 1890s, the E10s were displaced from the busiest suburban turns by larger types and moved to lighter suburban and branch duties. All were withdrawn before the end of the Victorian era. None was preserved.