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.
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.
[1] 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.
These were quickly returned to LMS stock, and the allocated WD numbers were reused for ex-LMS diesel shunters.