These photographs were taken at an British Rail exhibition of railway engines at Central Station in Manchester in 1962.
This is the Great Central Railway's 'Butler-Henderson' (named after Eric Butler-Henderson, a director of the company), the only remaining example of the Improved Director (11F) Class locomotive. It was given the number 506 when built at Gorton in 1920 and when the Great Central Railway was incorporated into the LNER in 1923 it was renumbered 5506 (later 2660), then when British Railways came into being in 1948 it was again renumbered as 62660. It is currently shown on their website as being one of the National Railway Museum's locomotives but as being loan to Great Central Railway, possibly at Barrowhill Roundhouse.
The photograph below is of the Princess Coronation Class locomotive named 'Sir William A Stanier FRS' in honour of the designer, Chief Mechanical Engineer of LMS. Construction of this class started in 1937, although this particular example was built (at Crewe) in 1947, when H.G. Ivatt had taken charge, and was given the number 6256, being renumbered 46256 when it came under the control of British Railways. It was withdrawn from service in 1964 and has not been preserved.
The last photograph is of a class AL5 locomotive No. E3058. These were built in the early 1960s at Doncaster works and were used on the then newly electrified West Coast Main Line. When British Rail introduced a new computer numbering system in 1968 the class designation was changed to 85 and the locomotives were subsequently renumbered, this one becoming 85003. Fifteen locomotives, this one included, were then modified for freight use only and their class became 85/1, whereupon it became 85113. This locomotive was withdrawn in 1991 and subsequently scrapped, and only one of the original AL5 class is shown as being preserved (at Barrowhill Roundhouse) - E3061/85006/85101.
Thanks to Wikipedia, The National Railway Museum, and other websites for the information about these locomotives.
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