Preserved Robinson Locomotives
Two Robinson-designed locomotives are preserved in the UK:
- 4-4-0 Improved Director GCR Class 11F No. 506 Butler-Henderson (Later BR No. 62660), which is preserved at the National Railway Museum, York, and currently on display at Barrow Hill Roundhouse, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire
- 2-8-0 GCR Class 8K No. 102 (Later BR No. 63601), also owned by the National Railway Museum is on loan to the Great Central Railway (preserved) at Loughborough. It is currently (2008) operational and used on demonstration goods trains.
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