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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Earlswood Lakes Station: gwrel456
Another view of ex-ROD 2-8-0 No 3014 after being given the
right of way to proceed through the station towards Stratford upon Avon. During
the First World War the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers
requisitioned about 600 locomotives of various types from thirteen United
Kingdom railway companies with the first arriving in France in late 1916. As
the war became prolonged it became clear that the ROD needed its own standard
locomotive, so the ROD adopted the Great Central Railway's Class 8K 2-8-0
originally designed by John G Robinson in 1911. The GWR bought 20 ROD locos in
1919 and a further 80 in 1925 with the locomotives widely spread over much of
the GWR system, being used on heavy freight trains. The first withdrawals were
made in 1927, but 45 survived to be taken over by British Railways in 1948 and
the last three survivors were not withdrawn until October 1958.
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