Locomotives on Bank Notes

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[Andy]

True, but I'm not sure how the Bank of England issuing notes with Alsthom /Siemens Eurostars and Hitachi IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train - replacement for HSTs (manufactured by Hitachi in Kobe, Japan)) would go down with the little Englanders...

Scarily,  158s are knocking on for 40, and not far off the same age as Evening Star was in the year 2000.

[Bob_Blakey]

On the £5 note I would definitely have 'Catch Me Who Can' - not Trevithick's first locomotive but probably the best known - because everything else has followed from that.

[JayMac]

I guess it depends how you define "first".  I thought the Class 81 was the first fleet of electric locos that BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) received.

The Class 76 (EM1) and Class 77 (EM2) locomotives used on the Woodhead route predate the Class 81. They were 1.5kV DC^▸ (Direct Current). The Class 81s were the first fleet of 25kV AC^▸ (Alternating Current, or can mean Air Conditioning, depending on context. The second meaning is often used in a railway context and more generally) locomotives.

[Merthyr Imp]

'Catch Me Who Can' - not Trevithick's first locomotive but probably the best known - because everything else has followed from that.

Now I would have said the Penydarren Engine was better known - and not just because this stands just down the road from me:

[Western Pathfinder]

 I'd very much like to see the Titfield thunderbolt on a £10 note .

[Andy]

I'd very much like to see the Titfield thunderbolt on a £10 note .

Why not Titfield Thunderbolt on the tenner, Thomas the Tank Engine on a fiver, Ivor the Engine on the £20 and Hogwarts Express on the £50?
:-)