March 2019.

*Built in 1943 by the Vulcan Iron Works, Pennsylvania, this engine became War Department loco and shipped to Britain along with several others of it's type. Becoming BR 30070 in 1948, it remained a shunter at Southampton Docks until 1962, when ousted by diesel shunters. Grabbed by one of the engineering departments, the engine was latterly renumbered DS238, named Wainwright, and made its way to Ashford Wagon Works in November 1963. It remained in use there alongside classmate No. DS237 (formerly 30065), until being taken out of service permanently in June 1967. Sister engine DS237 was decommissioned in April of the same year, and in March 1968 both were sold to Woodham Brothers, South Wales. Dragged dead in tow from Ashford, bound for the scrapyard on Barry Island, the pair were declared unfit for further travel at Tonbridge, due to developing hot bearings. Here, they were dumped on the site of the closed engine shed for six months, until being moved to Rolvenden, on the Kent & East Sussex Railway, in September 1968. They had been re-sold to the preserved line in the previous month.
It to enter traffic in 1994 as DS238 although with extensive modifications to the cab and bunker. It returned to traffic December 2017 and painted in the guise of Longmoor Military Railway WD 300 Major-General Frank S Ross.*