Built in 1946, no. 500 was the 2000th engine to be built at Doncaster Works.  photo LNER.

Pictured at York 30th July 1960. Photo W S Sellar.

Mrs Margaret Ensor of the Rotherham Family History Society sent me the photograph below and also the scan of the newspaper article which appeared at the time. The driver was her grandfather (who died in 1954) who had the honour of driving the locomotive brand new out of the works!