LNWR Prince of Wales Class

The London and North Western Railway Prince of Wales Class was a class of express passenger locomotive, in effect a superheated version of the railway's Experiment Class 4-6-0. Charles Bowen-Cooke introduced them in 1911. A total of 245 were built for the railway, of which 135 were built at Crewe between 1911 and 1919 and, unusually for the railway, 110 were contracted out: 20 were built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1915 and 1916 and ninety by William Beardmore and Company. The railway reused names and numbers from withdrawn locomotives, which made the numbering haphazard. The last four were allotted British Railways numbers in March 1948 but were withdrawn before renumbering, and none has been preserved.