Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

One of 14 locos bought by the Southern Railway from the War Office in 1946. Many more were built for the US Army Transportation Corps in 1942-3. Builders included Vulcan Iron Works, Pennsylvania and H K Porter of Pittsburgh.
The Southern found use for these locos in Southampton Docks. Problems occurred with the steel fireboxes; they deteriorated rapidly and had to be replaced.
30073 was later based at Eastleigh; it was withdrawn from there at the end of 1966. It was not preserved. Four examples were - two went to the Kent & East Sussex, one to the Bluebell and one to the Keightley & Worth Valley Railway.

One (not one of the SR ones) was used by the USATC at Bromborough Dock, Wirral to marshall ammunition trains during WW2.

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