DescriptionEastleigh Works Yard geograph-2649189-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
English: Ex-US Army 0-6-0T at Eastleigh Works Yard.
Seen on the occasion of an Open Day (note the small boys) in August 1964, No. 30072 is a late survivor of the hundred or so American wartime 'switchers' brought over by the US Army in 1942-43 for subsequent use on the Continent after the Liberation but before D-Day were employed at Depots or stored in Britain. After the War, in 1946 14 were purchased by the SR for use at Southampton Docks, numbered 61-74 (BR 30061-74); No. 30072 had been USA Transportation Corps No. 1973, built by Vulcan in 1943: it survived on BR until 7/67 and was the last one.
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