London & North Western Railway Bowen Cooke 'George V' class 4-4-0 No. 238 'F.W.Webb'. Built at Crewe in October. 1910 and withdrawn in March 1936 as LMS No. 5336.

It was an appropriate gesture to have 238 named after F.W.Webb, arguably the L&NWR's most notable locomotive engineer. Francis Trevithick, John Ramsbottom, George Whale and Charles Bowen Cooke also received this accolade. 'F.W.Webb' stands at Stockport Station in 1920. Although the photographer is not known for certain, it may well have been P.F.Cooke of Huddrsfield who took many similar high quality portraits in the region.

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