Locomotives Acquired From The War Department
In addition to the inherited and new-build locomotives, BR also purchased 620 locomotives of three types from the War Department. These had been in use on railways in Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe during the Second World War. For two of these types, BR was adding to two classes it already had. BR had inherited 556 ex-LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0s, and added 39 in 1949 and an additional three in 1957, bringing the class total to 666. Additionally, it had acquired 200 ex-LNER Class O7 2-8-0s of the WD Austerity 2-8-0 type, to which it added another 553 examples. The ex-LNER locomotives were later renumbered from the ex-LNER 6xxxx series into the BR series as 90533–732. The third type, of which it had no other examples, were the 25 of the WD Austerity 2-10-0s. Of the eight WD ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F 0-6-0Ts exported to France, the five survivors were repatriated in 1948, and resumed their original numbers in the sequence of LMS Fowler Class 3F locomotives (albeit with the additional 40000 that identified ex-LMS locomotives under BR ownership). The ex-WD Austerity 0-6-0STs were ex-LNER J94 locomotives and are included in the total of LNER locomotives inherited.
| Nos |
BR Class |
WD type |
Number acquired |
Dates acquired |
Power class |
Wheel arrangement |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47589/607/11/59/60 | ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F | WD ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F | 5 | 1948 | 3F | 0600T0-6-0T | |
| 48012 etc., 48773–5 | BR Stanier Class 8F | WD Stanier Class 8F | 42 | 1949, 1957 | 8F | 08202-8-0 | |
| 90000–552 | BR ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 | WD Austerity 2-8-0 | 553 | 1948 | 8F | 08202-8-0 | Plus another 180 examples of LNER Class O7, later renumbered 90553–732 |
| 90750–74 | BR ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0 | WD Austerity 2-10-0 | 25 | 1948 | 8F | 10202-10-0 |
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