All of the forty Maunsell 'V' 4-4-0s were named after

public schools. This was a marketing coup for the Southern Railway and aroused a lot of interest. As the number of locomotives grew and the schools used for naming were out of the Southern area the locomotives had to travel to, for example, Rugby and Malvern for the naming ceremony to take place on the nearest station to the school complete with an entourage of pupils. The nameplate of 'Repton' sits above one the driving wheels as it waits at Grosmont leading the 10.00 Whitby to Pickering service. The plaque below is a recent addition that has a number of interesting pieces of information about the locomotive.