ROD 2-8-0

The Railway Operating Division 2-8-0, known as the ROD 2-8-0, was a type of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive that was the standard heavy freight locomotive operated in Europe by the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers during the First World War. The division adopted the Great Central Railway Class 8K designed by John G. Robinson in 1911. Of the 521 built, 369 came from the North British Locomotive Company, 82 from Robert Stephenson and Company, 32 from Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, 32 from Kitson and Company and six from the Great Central Railway's Gorton Works. After the Armistice most returned to Britain and were sold to the Great Western, London and North Western and London and North Eastern railways, some were exported to China, 92 were requisitioned in 1941 for the Middle East, and three survive in Australia.