A WORKSPLATE from the prototype of the only class of electric locomotives designed by Nigel Gresley will go under the hammer at auction on November 12. It is from EM1 Bo-Bo No. 26000, which emerged from Doncaster Works in 1941 and carried the name Tommy after spending its early years on loan to the Dutch state railway Nederlandse Spoorwegen.
By the time he put his innovative skills to work on the project, Gresley wasin July 1938 – and designed the EM1 for operating on the Woodhead route between Manchester and Sheffield.
