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::Smith simply refers to them as ex-ROD 2-8-0s but gives no other details, and I haven't as yet found any other reference to them. I assume they would have been based at Shrewsbury in order to work to Ironbridge via the Branch. There is an useful page of [http://shedbashuk.blogspot.com/2014/08/shrewsbury-1957-1967.html shed bashes at Shrewsbury between 1957 and 1967] but although the key refers separately to ex-ROD and ex-WD locos, I can only find the latter listed. Can't add much else at the moment. --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 17:04, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
:::The BR database brings up a blank. [https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh1792.htm This] shows the GWR 3300 loco withdrawn from Shrewsbury in '53 and [https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p474491009/h2CFB94A4#h2cfb94a4 this] confirms the allocation but notes say they'd gone by 1956, hence none on the 1957 shed bash. But no evidence there of work on the SVR branch, or whether there were non-GW examples too.--[[User:Patrick Hearn|Patrick Hearn]] ([[User talk:Patrick Hearn|talk]]) 20:45, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
:::::After a bit more digging, Webb (2006) includes a copy of a 50s BR-era weight restriction table which confirms that GWR 28xx 2-8-0 and ROD 2-8-0 were permitted between Shrewsbury and Buildwas (and Hartlebury to Bewdley) but otherwise banned. I have no evidence to confirm this, but I'm wondering if they were actually some of the [https://www.lner.info/locos/O/o7.php ex-LNER WD 2-8-0s]. The [http://shedbashuk.blogspot.com/2014/08/shrewsbury-1946-1956.html 1946-56 Shed bash] shows 3012, 3013, 3025 and 3026 at Shrewsbury at different times and refers to them as ROD (although I would have called them WD). It looks from the shed codes as though they were not necessarily shedded at Shrewsbury at the time, but of course the coal may have been coming from some distance away. 3043 was [https://www.anistr.com/-/galleries/photos-of-british-railways-1948-1968/photos-of-br-western-region-wr-steam-locos/ex-rod-class-2-8-0-steam-locos photographed at Shrewsbury] but was [http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=977448&loco=7448 shedded at Woodford Halse] at the time the loco carried that number. --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 23:29, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
:I presume BSC Foley Park is in scope? Kidderminster yard (I seem to remember a 40 there?)? Or am I overthinking this!--[[User:Patrick Hearn|Patrick Hearn]] ([[User talk:Patrick Hearn|talk]]) 20:48, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
::Practice for many years was for the main line locos to drop the wagons at Kidderminster yard and then a shunting engine would take them down to the factory. I don't know if Class 40s would have done the same? --[[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 23:29, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
