LMS diesel shunter 7050
| LMS 7050 | |
|---|---|
War Department | |
| Number in class | 1 |
| Disposition | Preserved in 1979 |
LMS diesel shunter 7050 is an experimental
London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1934 and which remained in service with that railway for six years. It was later acquired for military use and is now preserved at the National Railway Museum
.
History
No. 7050 was an experimental locomotive built by the
War Department
(WD) which numbered it 224. Subsequent renumberings by the WD, and later the Army, saw it carry numbers 70224 (in 1944), 846 (1952) and 240 (1968).
At some point it was rebuilt with a Gardner engine and was used at the Royal Navy base at Botley, Hampshire.[2]
Preservation
No 7050 was preserved in 1979, and displayed at the Museum of Army Transport in Beverley. Upon the closure of that Museum in 2003 it was transferred to the National Railway Museum in York.
Footnotes
- ISBN 0860931080.
- ^ Marsden (1981).[page needed]
References
- Rowledge, J.W.P. (1975). Engines of the LMS built 1923–51. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Company. pp. 36, 46, 72, 94. ISBN 0-902888-59-5.
- Strickland, David C. (September 1983). Locomotive Directory: Every Single One There Has Ever Been. Camberley: Diesel and Electric Group. p. 23. Wikidata Q105978499.
- Tourret, R. (1995). Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War. Abingdon, Oxon: Tourret Publishing. pp. 36–42. ISBN 0-905878-06-X.