No.6001 King Edward VII on 19th March 1961 at its home shed of Wolverhampton Stafford Road. It was allocated there from late-1954 until withdrawn along with the other remaining members of the class in September 1962. The ‘King’ is preparing to move off shed to work train ‘A91’, the 3.35pm from Wolverhampton to Paddington.

Ed Purcell adds - "This was a very easy place to get among the engines - just down the platform ramp at Dunstall Park and round the wall to the shed."
Peter kerslake says "This view shows clearly the narrow cabside window fitted to just 6001 from a very early date, much narrower than on the other " Kings "
A rare photograph with 6001 in the background in the " Thro' The Lens " book of official GWR photographs shows 6001 in 1933 with a box mounted outside the cab where those rivet heads seen at the top this photograph appear, with some form of cable running down, but what it might be is unclear, although it might possibly have been something to do the Automatic Train Control apparatus.
It is the only picture I have ever seen with the box in position, and I suspect that it may have ben a very short lived attachment, especially as it would have severely restricted the driver's ahead vision from the cab."
A little more research tells me that the large box fitted to the outside of 6001's driver's side cab was to house the speedometer equipment with which 6001 was equipped by the G.W.R. in 1932, that box being linked to the trailing driving wheel on that side by a series of rods, one of which ran down vertically across the cabside numberplate !
For some reason 6001 retained the narrow window on the driver's side, made necessary by that box, for the rest of its working life, long after that early form of experimental speed recording equipment had been removed and replaced later by a less obtrusive and more reliable system, the bracket for that later design also visible here above the coupling rod and below the running plate.
This close up view also shows clearly the blanking plate and bolts where that earlier 1932 equipment had been located all those years ago and the unique narrow window still in place on 6001 on this side"