You couldn't make it up! The almost incredible story of BR building new batches of Wilson Worsdell's 'J72s' in 1951 when the first of the design was dated 1898! The moral is:- why design a new product when there's nothing wrong with the original one? One hundred and thirteen 'J72s' were built in total. Here's 69021 at Darlington MPD in a lovely photo dated May 1955.

© Ken Widd. Steve Armitage Collection