Seventy-six locomotives were rebuilt and 75 survived into Southern Railway (SR) ownership on 1 January 1923 with random numbers between 2 and 250. Nine locomotives survived into British Railways (BR) ownership in 1948.[2] Numbers of these nine were:
SECR no.
SR no.
BR no.
2
1002
31002
28
1028
31028
31
1031
31031
42
1042
31042
78
1078
31078
105
1105
31105
151
1151
31151
215
1215
31215
231
1231
31231
Accidents and incidents[]
In August 1926, a F1 class locomotive overran buffers at London Bridge and crashed into a brewery.[3]
On 19 August 1928 A148 was deliberately crashed into a lorry at Lasham, between Basingstoke and Alton, for the film 'the Wrecker'. The remains were cut up on site.[4]
References[]
^Casserley, H.C. and Johnston, S.W., Locomotives at the Grouping 1, Southern Railway, page 25, Ian Allan, 1974, ISBN0711005524