70's Spotting Days Around the Western region coaches the entire fleet of ten

the entire fleet of ten locomotives had been withdrawn as the curtain fell on Class 74 workings in December 1977

with the V2 using the 2-6-2 ‘Prairie’ wheel arrangement which in Great Britian was generally the preserve of tank locomotives

He kept it for three years but

Such was their contribution to the British transport network between 1939 and 1945 that the V2s later became known to many as ‘the engines that won the war’

Instead of loading liquids into drums or barrels and then having to load these on and off closed or open vans at each side of a journey

70's Spotting Days Around the Western region coaches the entire fleet of ten