Those Great Locomotives - WDs

With over 1000 locomotives built, the Ministry of Supply locomotives with their various nicknames were the backbone of wartime freight services in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, and even the Middle East. But were they better of maintained, or pushed into the sea, like their designer recommended? SOURCES & CREDIT: Picture of NS Class 5000 (thumbnail) - 151460 / collectie Het Utrechts Archief https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeldma... Picture of Austerity 90733 by Andrew Hastie - Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_Aust... Picture of LMR 'Gordon' -   / 1   Picture of 90775 'The North Norfolk Regiment' - https://www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio... Picture of Kowloon-Canton Railway ex-WD - Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCR_ex-... Picture of the plaque commemorating the Soham Rail Disaster - Tiger, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_r... Picture of memorial of the Soham Rail Disaster - Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_r... Footage of NS Class 5000 on a passenger working - van den Burg Beeldproduties Footage and images not marked with distinction of ownership are my own work. Website sources: https://www.lner.info/locos/O/o7.php Literary sources: 'British Locomotive Classes' by Brian Reed 'The Observer's Book Of Railway Locomotives Of Britain' revised version by H. C. Casserley Video/Film sources: 'Decades of Steam - 1940s' by Ian Allan 'LNER - Then And Now' by Ian Allan Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. LINKS Discord server -   / discord   Twitter -   / teawithcaramel1   Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty (Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ ) Channel icon by -   / shirahoshid   2D avatars by:   / inksilvery   (Green coat Caramel)   / star_blood827   (Witch Caramel) #LNER #NS