The GCR Class 8F was a class of ten 4-6-0 locomotives built for the Great Central Railway in 1906 by Beyer, Peacock and Company to the design of John G. Robinson for working fast goods and fish trains.

Robinson developed the Great Central Railway (GCR)'s Class 8F (LNER B4) from his two experimental B1 4-6-0s. At construction, the only difference was that the B4s had driving wheels that were three inches smaller at 6ft 6in diameter.

GCR Class 9P was a design of four-cylinder steam locomotive of the 4-6-0 wheel arrangement built for hauling express passenger trains on the Great Central Railway in England. A total of six were built: one in 1917, and five in 1920.

Following on the heels of the Sir Sam Fay express passenger locomotives (Locobase 2304), this mixed-traffic design had 14" (356 mm) smaller drivers. They gained their name from the Glen Almond, the lead engine of the class. Like the other GCR Ten-wheelers, these had Belpaire fireboxes and, eventually, 10" (254 mm) piston valves.

The Great Central Railway's (GCR) Class 8 (LNER Class B5) was the first of Robinson's 4-6-0 designs, and would become a basis for his Atlantics as well as other 4-6-0 designs. Robinson design both the B5 and a special kind of bogie fish van for a new fast fish service from Grimsby.

Robinson based his mixed traffic GCR Class 9Q (LNER B7) mixed traffic 4-6-0 design on the passenger B3 Lord Faringdon class. The two designs shared the same frame length, boiler, and cylinders, although the B7 cylinders were more steeply inclined.

The GCR Class 9Q, classified B7 by the LNER, was a class of 4-6-0 mixed traffic locomotives designed by John G. Robinson for fast goods, relief passenger and excursion services on the Great Central Railway.

A hundred years ago it was the latest Robinson design for the Great Central Railway, the class 9P (later LNER B3). This was Robinson’s largest passenger locomotive design. The first locomotive was built at the end of 1917 and named after the GCR chairman, Lord Farringdon.

The Great Central Railway Class 8, known as the London and North Eastern Railway Class B5 following the 1923 Grouping, was a class of fourteen 4-6-0 steam locomotives designed to haul fast goods trains, in particular fish trains.

In 1902, John Robinson produced his first truly mixed traffic design for the Great Central Railway. The new locomotives were built to a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement but, although a mixed traffic design, were painted in the standard goods livery of black with red and white lining.