Where possible, the Southern sent the newly constructed locomotive to a station near the school after which it was named for its official naming ceremony, when pupils were allowed to view the cab of "their" engine.
Over the next half century, new lines were constructed, steam locomotives were completely replaced by electric ones, and new safety measures were introduced (including an automated announcement warning passengers to "mind the gap" between the train and the platform).
None have survived, though progress is being made by a Registered Charity (No. 1062320), the Standard Steam Locomotive Company, on constructing a new locomotive that would have been the first of the uncompleted batch of 15, number 72010 Hengist.
An order made in 1926 for a second batch of 20 K class locomotives was delayed until 1928, when the specification was revised to construct U class locomotives.
The Straw Locomotive was a 78ft locomotive constructed from steel, straw and chicken wire that Wyllie suspended from the landmark Finnieston Crane on the banks of the River Clyde in May 1987.
The metro also has in operation a three battery run electric locomotives constructed by Hunslet which are used to pull engineering trains around the network [17].
The first locomotives constructed by British Railways were of the Battle of Britain class, but the naming policy reverted to the West Country for Nos.
The locomotives constructed from 1925 were named after rivers found within the Southern Railway's operating area, and the class became known collectively as the River class.
The first was an Iron Duke class broad-gauge locomotive built in 1846, the first locomotive entirely constructed at the company's Swindon locomotive works.
After serving in the Swedish army as a topographical surveyor, Ericsson went to London in 1826 and constructed a steam locomotive, the Novelty, for a railway competition at Rainhill, Lancashire, in 1829.
