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‘SUPER DS’ AT OXFORD

The origins of nickname ‘Super D’ remains unclear but the term ‘Superheated D’ dates from a London& North Western Railway classification scheme from 1905, whereby any simple (ie, not compound) 0-8-0 was described as a ‘D’. But the nickname persisted throughout LMS days and

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