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With over 1000 locomotives built, the Ministry of Supply locomotives with their various nicknames were the backbone of wartime freight services in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, and even the Middle East. But were they better of maintained, or pushed into the sea, like their designer recommended?

SOURCES & CREDIT:

Picture of NS Class 5000 (thumbnail) - 151460 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeldma...

Picture of Austerity 90733 by Andrew Hastie - Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_Aust...

Picture of LMR 'Gordon' -   / 1  

Picture of 90775 'The North Norfolk Regiment' - https://www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio...

Picture of Kowloon-Canton Railway ex-WD - Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCR_ex-...

Picture of the plaque commemorating the Soham Rail Disaster - Tiger, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_r...

Picture of memorial of the Soham Rail Disaster - Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_r...

Footage of NS Class 5000 on a passenger working - van den Burg Beeldproduties

Footage and images not marked with distinction of ownership are my own work.

Website sources:

https://www.lner.info/locos/O/o7.php

Literary sources:

'British Locomotive Classes' by Brian Reed

'The Observer's Book Of Railway Locomotives Of Britain' revised version by H. C. Casserley

Video/Film sources:

'Decades of Steam - 1940s' by Ian Allan

'LNER - Then And Now' by Ian Allan

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