LB&SCR D3 class
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LB&SCR D3 class was a 0-4-4T design built by Robert J. Billinton for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway between 1892 and 1896. They where built for working passenger trains along country and main lines. One locomotive, number 363 was named after the company's chairman, Sir Julian Goldsmid, who was so fond of the engine he had an image of the locomotive used on the railway's cap badges.
They where fitted for motor trains (or other wise known as Push-pull trains) by the Southern Railway during the 1930's to replace D1 tanks, but they where in turn repalced by former South Eastern H class tank engines during the early 1950's the last being in service in 1951.
None of the engines have survived in to preservation.
[edit] World War Two: German plane V. D3
During the war, one engine, number 2365, was working through the Romney Marshes when she was attacked by a German enemy plane. The plane attacked the engine, causing the boiler to bust, but no railway staff of passengers where hurt. Either the sudden rush of the steam from the boiler or the plane coming in to contact with the dome, supposedly caused the plane to crash, killing the airman. The engine was repaired after a new boiler was fitted and surrived the war.
