rebuilt locomotives took over. Thereafter the remaining members of the class were employed on the secondary express trains on these lines. In the years immediately following the grouping of the SECR with other railways to form the Southern Railway (UK) in 1923 the E class locomotives continued with their existing duties, but in 1931 three examples were transferred to the Central Section to assist with expresses on the Brighton Main Line, followed by further examples. During the Second World War they were also regularly employed on the line between and Reading. The E1 class was replaced on the heaviest boat trains in the mid-1920s by the LSWR N15 class 4-6-0 locomotives. For a while they were used on expresses to but in the 1930s several of the class were transferred to the former London Brighton and South Coast Railway main lines in Sussex. Withdrawal and preservation The majority of the remaining E class locomotives were withdrawn during 1951 but one lasted until May 1955. The E1 rebuilds were withdrawn over a far longer period between May 1949 and November 1961, with three examples lasting until the 1960s. No examples have been preserved. The Brighton Atlantic Group at the Bluebell Railway has announced that, following the completion of new Brighton H2 class No. 32424 Beachy Head, it would begin construction on a new E class locomotive to take the number 516. Accidents and incidents On 5 March 1909, locomotive No. 165 was hauling a mail train that was in collision with an express passenger train hauled by locomotive No. 497 at , Kent after the latter overran signals. Two people were killed and eleven were injured. References Herring, Peter (2000) Classic British Steam Locomotives, Enderby: Abbeydale, External links Class details RailUK Class E1 details RailUK E 4-4-0 locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1906 Scrapped locomotives Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain Passenger locomotives