WD ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F

The War Department ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F consisted of 8 LMS Fowler Class 3F 0-6-0T steam locomotives requisitioned in 1940 from the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).
==Career==
The Class 3F 0-6-0Ts were selected by the War Department to be their standard shunting engine. Eight engines were prepared and exported to France during the Phoney War and were used to support British forces there. In an attempt to standardise locomotives were chosen from the 1928 batch built by William Beardmore & Co., with the exception of one Hunslet-built engine, No. 7589. Two are thought to have been destroyed by retreating British forces during the chaotic retreat at the Fall of France. Photographic evidence exists showing one such example at Berlin-Tempelhof station in 1953 with Wehrmacht markings and had recently been in service, overhauled at Cottbus in 1944. The remaining known five were left behind and were subsequently pressed into SNCF service as their 030.TW class on Région Nord.
It was later (1943) decided to adopt the Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST as the War Department's shunting steam engine, so no more were required.
After the liberation of Europe, the surviving five were returned in August and September 1948, by which time the LMS had been nationalized into British Railways, and they assumed their original numbers within the ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F 0-6-0Ts, albeit with the addition of 40000 standard to most ex-LMS locomotives.
The eight engines concerned were as follows:
LMS No.	WD No.	SNCF No. 	BR No.	Builder 	Serial No.	Date built	Fate
7613 	8 	— 	47613—	William Beardmore & Co.	361 	1928 	scrapped DR, Berlin, 1953/4
7611 	9 	030.TW.042	47611 	William Beardmore & Co.	359 	1928 	Returned August 1948
7607 	10 	030.TW.043	47607 	William Beardmore & Co.	355 	1928 	Returned September 1948
7660 	11 	030.TW.044	47660 	William Beardmore & Co.	408 	1929 	Returned August 1948
7659 	12 	030.TW.026	47659 	William Beardmore & Co.	407 	1929 	Returned September 1948
7663 	13 	— 	47663—	William Beardmore & Co.	411 	1929 	Destroyed by 1945
7589 	14 	030.TW.027	47589 	Hunslet Engine Company 	1613 	1929 	Returned September 1948
7617 	15 	— 	47617—	William Beardmore & Co.	365 	1928 	Destroyed by 1945
Of these WD No. 9 (ex-LMS 7611) was sent instead of 1928 Hunslet built No. 7587 which had been prepared for WD service.
The following engines were ordered to be prepared for service but were not actually sent. These were quickly returned to LMS stock, and the allocated WD numbers were reused for ex-LMS diesel shunters. All these were also Beardmore engines:
LMS No.	WD No.	Builder 	Serial No.	Date built
7620 	23 	William Beardmore & Co.	368 	1928
7624 	24 	William Beardmore & Co.	372 	1928
7629 	22 	William Beardmore & Co.	377 	1928
7631 	20 	William Beardmore & Co.	379 	1928
7638 	19 	William Beardmore & Co.	386 	1928
7643 	21 	William Beardmore & Co.	391 	1929
The five that returned were withdrawn between 1961 and 1966 and none were preserved.
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