List of SR V "Schools" class locomotives

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Below are the names and numbers of the 40 SR V "Schools" class locomotives designed by Richard Maunsell. Another successful publicity campaign by the Southern Railway when named from 1930 onwards, they represented the public schools of England, initially due to their proximity to the railway that served them, but not all from the SR area. The class naming process consisted of pupils attending these schools visiting "their" engine during the naming ceremonies.

NumberName [1] BuilderBuiltWithdrawnNotes
SRBR
90030900 Eton Eastleigh19301962
90130901 Winchester Eastleigh19301962
90230902 Wellington Eastleigh19301962
90330903 Charterhouse Eastleigh19301962
90430904 Lancing Eastleigh19301961
90530905 Tonbridge Eastleigh19301961Fitted with high sided self trimming tender (ex 30932) from August 1958 to withdrawal.
90630906 Sherborne Eastleigh19301962Nameplate preserved in the day room of Wallace House
90730907 Dulwich Eastleigh19301961
90830908 Westminster Eastleigh19301961
90930909 St Pauls Eastleigh19301962
91030910 Merchant Taylors Eastleigh19321961No apostrophe. One nameplate preserved above entrance to Sixth Form Common Room, and another outside the DT building
91130911 Dover Eastleigh19321962One nameplate preserved at the college.
91230912 Downside Eastleigh19321962
91330913 Christ's Hospital Eastleigh19321962
91430914 Eastbourne Eastleigh19321961
91530915 Brighton Eastleigh19331962
91630916 Whitgift Eastleigh19331962
91730917 Ardingly Eastleigh19331962Nameplate preserved at the Staff Room of the college.
91830918 Hurstpierpoint Eastleigh19331961
91930919 Harrow Eastleigh19331961
92030920 Rugby Eastleigh19331961
92130921 Shrewsbury Eastleigh19331962Nameplate preserved in the Admissions Offices/Registry of the school.
92230922 Marlborough Eastleigh19331961Nameplates preserved respectively in Norwood Hall dining room and in the Science Block.
92330923 Bradfield Eastleigh19331962Engine 923 was originally named Uppingham , but was renamed following objections from the school.
92430924 Haileybury Eastleigh19331962Nameplate preserved in the Library of the school.
92530925 Cheltenham Eastleigh19341962Preserved as part of the National Collection at the National Railway Museum, York. Currently operational and on long-term loan to the Watercress Line.
92630926 Repton Eastleigh19341962Currently preserved on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway having been repatriated from North America. Currently operational.
92730927 Clifton Eastleigh19341962
92830928 Stowe Eastleigh19341962Preserved on the Bluebell Railway. Purchased by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu direct from British Railways service in 1962. Currently undergoing overhaul.
92930929 Malvern Eastleigh19341962
93030930 Radley Eastleigh19341962
93130931 King's - Wimbledon Eastleigh19341961Name as it appears on a surviving nameplate includes both the apostrophe and the dash
93230932 Blundell's Eastleigh19351961Fitted with high sided self trimming tender from June 1938 to August 1958 when a tender exchange took place with 30905. The nameplate did include an apostrophe as the product photograph of the model introduced by Hornby in 2009 shows. [2] The locomotive featured in the opening shots of the 1945 film Waterloo Road.[ citation needed ]
93330933 Kings Canterbury Eastleigh19351961
93430934 St Lawrence Eastleigh19351962
93530935 Sevenoaks Eastleigh19351962Given a streamlined shroud and numbered 999 but, as far as is known, never left the works in this form
93630936 Cranleigh Eastleigh19351962
93730937 Epsom Eastleigh19351962
93830938 St Olaves Eastleigh19351961
93930939 Leatherhead Eastleigh19351961

Remaining artefacts of other class members

30913 Christ's Hospital in BR days. 30913 Christ's Hospital, London.jpg
30913 Christ's Hospital in BR days.

When the locomotives were withdrawn from service, BR presented their nameplates to the appropriate schools:

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References

  1. ↑ Burridge, Frank: Nameplates of the Big Four (Oxford Publishing Company: Oxford, 1975) ISBN   0-902888-43-9
  2. ↑ "BR 4-4-0 'Blundell's' Schools Class DCC Fitted - Locomotives - Hornby". Archived from the original on 19 May 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  3. ↑ "Southern Railway Schools Class Locomotive 30906 'Sherborne'". The Old Shirburnian Society. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
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