High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Throughout its history the London and North Western Railway adopted a policy of reusing the numbers and names of withdrawn locomotives for new engines as they came out of Crewe Works. This resulted in each class of engines having entirely random numbers and a collection of names that defies logical analysis. However, by 1911 new locomotives were being produced at a much faster rate than old ones were being scrapped and a new set of names was required for Bowen Cooke's new 4-6-0 express engines which were beginning to enter service. By a happy chance Prince Edward, the future King Edward VIII, was invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle on 13 July 1911 and this gave the company the opportunity to name the first of the locomotives, and therefore the whole class, in honour of the new Prince.

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