LNER Class O6

The LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 had been chosen by the War Department to be its standard heavy freight locomotive.

As a result, 60 were built by the LNER to Railway Executive Committee order between 1943 and 1945.

The LNER quickly took on replacements for them in the form of the WD Austerity 2-8-0, which they classified as Class O7.

The LNER and the LMS were both nationalised to form British Railways on 1 January 1948.

This was reported by Steam Railway magazine in 2012, but at present nothing has been said of this proposal and it is unlikely that these two locos will ever be restored.