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I've seen a pic of the CO's inspection train being hauled by a USA 0-6-0T so at least one of the class got to Longmoor.

 

At this time Longmoor was allocated a member of each design so they could get to know it well enough to give advice to any military abroad to sort out any problems with their locomoties.

You will be interested in a quote from the book "Locomotives at War" by P.M. Kalla-Bishop. "Jumping ahead a little, it might be recorded that Longmoor became one of two depots receiving the new U.S. army 0-6-0 tanks and making small alterations to them towards the end of 1942. The L.M.R. had W.D. 1255 of this type permanently allocated to it.".

 

I read somewhere, the reason for the S160 being at Longmoor was that it was swapped with the US Army for a WD 2-8-0.
I read somewhere one WD 2-8-0 is unaccounted for, post war, suggesting it may be the one

Does anyone know any more ?, and if true, the fate of that WD in the US ?

 

The current thinking is that there are 3 missing locomotives. The distribution after the war was British Raiways 733, Dutch Railways 184, Hong Kong 12, Longmoor Military Railway 2 and USATC 1. There is no obvious need for the one swapped with a S160 to be taken to the US. Longmoor was the headquarters of the British railway engineers and they needed to be familiar with all the war locomotives that the British military could come accross and there is no reason why the US wouldn't have a similar centre in Europe. It might even have been at Longmoor and the locomotive concerned was one of the Longoor duo.

 

The current thinking is that there are 3 missing locomotives which is a very good for a class of 935 locomotives, The recorded disposal after the war was British Railways 733, Dutch railways 184, Hong Kong 12, Longmoor Military Railway 2 and USATC 1.

 

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I can confirm from the RCTS book "Locomotives of the LNER" that the missing locomotives were scrapped after accidents. 77125 and 77238 were in a head-on collision near Kleve (W.Germany) on 16th August 1945. 77183 was involved in a collision near Kraneburg (W.Germany) on 6th November 1945 whilst on loan to Netherlands State Railways.