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}}Longmoor Military Railway No. 600 'Gordon' was built in 1943 at the North British Locomotive Company’s Hyde Park Works in Glasgow as works number 25437. The locomotive, which is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon|General Gordon of Khartoum]], is a World War 2 II ‘Austerity’ locomotive designed by R. A. Riddles, and was the second of 150 such locomotives built. It was originally numbered WD 73651 for the War Department.
The standard War Department [[Whyte notation | 2-8-0]] freight locomotive was a simplified version of the LMS 8F. The [[Whyte notation | 2-10-0]] design was introduced to give a reduced axle loading, mainly intended for overseas use where track quality could be worse than Great Britain. To enable the locomotive to negotiate sharp curves, the 2-10-0’s centre driving wheels are flangeless whilst the next pairs have reduced flanges (a feature continued in the BR Standard 9F).
25 such locomotives were purchased by British Railways in 1948 and were classified as 8F.
Despite superficial similarities of being blue and named Gordon, there is no ostensible link between the locomotive and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_the_Big_Engine |fictional anthropomorphic tender locomotive in The Railway Series books by Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry].
==LMR 600 Gordon in service==
