26-11-2018, 02:50 PM
An anorak writes; the US Transportation Corps class S160 were built for use in Europe, and to British loading guage. Some worked here for a while but the whole stock was taken across the Chanel after D-Day. The handful now here are from a very wide range of sources. The important question raised by the photo is which of the operating 2-8-0s is disguised as number1225? And unless a S160 has gone to Telford for Santa use, as one did a couple of years ago, where did Hedd find "1225"? An heroic day out with kids in the Chummy clutching their Ian Allan spotters book if the loco is on the West Somerset or the Churnet Valley, but I can't beleive that the day out got as far as the Keithley and Worth Valley! I think we should be told.