45407

Slightly related: What's the greatest number of different numbers any loco ever carried?

I can think of LBSCR Terrier46 "Newington":

Built as LBSCR No. 46 "Newington"
Renumbered No. 646
Sold to LSWR as No. 734 (and lost name)
Sold to Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport as No. 2
Renumbered W2 by Southern Railway
Renumbered W8 and named "Freshwater"
Renumbered 32646 by BR

(And now preserved as W8 Freshwater)

So seven numbers and two names. Terrier 78 also had seven number changes and two names.

(78 "Knowle" / 678 / B678 / W4 / W14 "Bembridge" / 2678 / 32678 and also now preserved)

Any others?

Tom

 

Ah but that depends on whether you subscribe to the idea that a locos identity is determined by its frames......

 

Don't start that up again!

Tom

 

Just going back to the Arthurs discussion, I think the names of the Standards were all from the Urie series 30736-55.

 

While on the subject, is 7828 ever going back to Odney Manor or is it a temporary thing ?, naming an unnamed loco is one thing, but renaming an existing one doesn't sit as comfortably.

I notice Witherslack Hall is going one step further and aquiring a new identity - 6988 Swithland Hall, doesn't bother me too much short term as 6988 existed, but don't like the idea she may never go back to 6990.

 

There's a bit on it in Steam Railway Martin, seems a bit early for an April Fool.

 

Try Warships - class 42/43 to Class 50 where the theme if not names were repeated.

 

The book to look at is British Locomotive Names of the Twentieth Century by H C Casserley. A few names come up quite often.

 

The SR always had a slick PR machine (largely the creation of JB Elliott) and I assume that those skills didn't immediately die out in 1948. Incidentally, I seem to recall that Maunsell had to be persuaded against his better judgment about naming the King Arthurs: what an inspired decision it was to go against his preference!

Tom

 

Correct, and since 6990 ran on the GCR in 1948 whereas 6988's only spurious connection with the line is to have been named after a nearby hall, I can't see many GCR volunteers being too happy if it becomes permanent. It has been reported as happening in the GCR's magazine but I haven't seen it mentioned as permanent. But as a temporary thing for a bit of publicity, why not?

By the way the Sherwood Foresters name on 45231 is a contraction of the name it carried in the 70s which was something like The 3rd Battallion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (feel free to correct this if I haven't remembered it correctly!)

 

Something to do with Bachmanns announcement of a model of 6988 Swithland Hall perhaps, there not a million miles away from the GCR and have some announcements of their own come summer ?