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Ex-US Army 0-6-0T at Eastleigh Works Yard in 1964

Seen on the occasion of an Open Day in August 1964, British Railways 0-6-0, formerly SR USA class, No. 30072 is a late survivor of the hundred or so American wartime 'switchers' brought over by the US Army in 1942-43. After the War, in 1946 14 were purchased by the Southern Railway for use at Southampton Docks.

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