The 8K was introduced to anticipate the increased traffic from the GCR's vast new docks complex at Immingham in North East Lincolnshire and by June 1914 126 were in traffic.
The ROD requisitioned many diverse locomotives from Britain's railway companies, but as the war dragged on adopted the Great Central Railway's Robinson Class 8K 2-8-0 as its standard freight locomotive to become the ROD 2-8-0.
Gym Class Heroes | class action | class | Class A | working class | DB Class 218 | Class War | British Rail Class 37 | Social class | British Rail Class 47 | Victorian Railways X class | GWR 3031 Class | Class D | British Rail Class 66 | World Class Championship Wrestling | Saved by the Bell: The New Class | Nimitz-class aircraft carrier | Middle Class Rut | Middle class | middle class | Mercedes-Benz G-Class | Master Class | master class | LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard | First class travel | Class Act | Class 66 | British Rail Class 52 | British Rail Class 222 | British Rail Class 20 |
These locomotives were based on the pre war Great Central Railway Class 8K 2-8-0 locos design by John G. Robinson After the armistice these locomotives were surplus and J & A Brown bought 13 of these locomotives, these were built by the North British Locomotive Company (9), Kitson and Company (1) and the Great Central Railway's Gorton Works (3).