Southern Railway Schools Class
The school lent its name to a locomotive in the Southern Railway V Class. This class was known as the Schools Class because all 40 locomotives were named after prominent English public schools. "Whitgift", no. 916, was built in 1934 and withdrawn in 1962.
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