The BR class EM2 (later class 77) Co-Co electric locos were built in 1953-4 at Gorton, with Metropolitan-Vickers electrical equipment, to handle passenger traffic between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria via the 1,500v DC Woodhead line. There were seven locos in the class, numbered 27000 to 27006, and all carried names from Greek mythology starting, appropriately, with
