In 1945, Edward Thompson rebuilt K3 No. 206 into a two-cylinder engine forming the LNER Class K5.
Due to the reduction of heavy freight trains after the Second World War, both engines were withdrawn by Edward Thompson and scrapped in July 1945, the first Gresley locomotives to be withdrawn and scrapped by intention.
There he became friendly with Edward Thompson who involved him in the abortive scheme to produce the 'Oxford Book of Bengali Verse'.
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John Edward Thompson (1882 – 1945) was an American painter and university professor who is credited with introducing modern art to Denver, Colorado in 1918, much to the chagrin of local critics.