Below is a list of SR Lord Nelson class locomotives. They were named after famous admirals, in an attempt by the Southern Railway's publicity department to promote the channel ports of the Central Section.
No. | Name | Builder | Built | Withdrawn | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR | BR | |||||
850 | 30850 | Lord Nelson | Eastleigh | Aug. 1926 | Aug 1962 | Preserved though not running on the mainline for the immediate future. |
851 | 30851 | Sir Francis Drake | Eastleigh | May 1928 | Dec 1961 | |
852 | 30852 | Sir Walter Raleigh | Eastleigh | Jul 1928 | Feb 1962 | |
853 | 30853 | Sir Richard Grenville | Eastleigh | Sep 1928 | Mar 1962 | |
854 | 30854 | Howard of Effingham | Eastleigh | Oct 1928 | Sep 1961 | |
855 | 30855 | Robert Blake | Eastleigh | Oct 1928 | Oct 1961 | |
856 | 30856 | Lord St Vincent | Eastleigh | Nov 1928 | Sep 1962 | |
857 | 30857 | Lord Howe | Eastleigh | Dec 1928 | Sep 1962 | |
858 | 30858 | Lord Duncan | Eastleigh | Jan 1929 | Aug 1961 | |
859 | 30859 | Lord Hood | Eastleigh | Mar 1929 | Dec 1961 | |
860 | 30860 | Lord Hawke | Eastleigh | Dec 1929 | Aug 1962 | |
861 | 30861 | Lord Anson | Eastleigh | Sep 1929 | Oct 1962 | |
862 | 30862 | Lord Collingwood | Eastleigh | Oct 1929 | Oct 1962 | |
863 | 30863 | Lord Rodney | Eastleigh | Oct 1929 | Feb 1962 | |
864 | 30864 | Sir Martin Frobisher | Eastleigh | Nov 1929 | Jan 1962 | Featured in the opening shots of the 1945 film Waterloo Road |
865 | 30865 | Sir John Hawkins | Eastleigh | Nov 1929 | May 1962 |
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, lord, nelson, class and/or locomotives:
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You dont look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
—Bible: New Testament, 2 Corinthians 3:17.
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
—Jane Nelson (20th century)
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:”
—Vachel Lindsay (18791931)