7050
LMS
shunter 0-4-0DM
built by English Electric for Drewry at Preston 1934
National Railway Museum, York
23 June 2009
War Department/Army numbers: 224, 70224, 846, 240
Built as a pilot diesel shunter for the LMS in 1934, 7050 was loaned to the War Department in 1940 and sold to them in 1943. At sometime during it's military service it was given the name "Rorke's Drift".