214 Gladstone, LB&SCR B1 Class

The first of William Stroudley's B1 class and the engine that gave the class its name, No. 214 was turned out from Brighton Works in 1882. The B1s were Stroudley's last express passenger design, an enlarged development of his Richmond class of 1878, and worked the heaviest London to Brighton expresses. Thirty-six were built at Brighton between 1882 and 1891.

By the time she was withdrawn for preservation in April 1927 she had run 1,346,918 miles. Gladstone was bought and preserved by the Stephenson Locomotive Society, making her the first locomotive anywhere to be preserved by a private body rather than by a railway company or a museum. She is normally on static display at the National Railway Museum, York.

Location and status last confirmed National Railway Museum, York, August 2026. Subject to verification.

Saved as a static exhibit through the efforts of the Stephenson Locomotive Society, and the only ex-LB&SCR tender locomotive preserved. Of the 36 built, ten were scrapped before the First World War and the remaining 26 between 1926 and 1933.

No owner or livery is recorded here; the source consulted gives the location and status but not those details.