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    S160 No. 2253 named Omaha in commemoration of D-Day landings

    Jul 02, 2019 4 minutes
    By Roger Melton
    PAUL MIDDLETON/NYMR

    PETER Best’s United States Army Transport Corps S160 2-8-0 No. 2253 has been outshopped in maroon livery and named Omaha in honour of the D-Day invasion of Normandy 75 years ago.

    The locomotive was constructed by Baldwin’s of Philadelphia in March 1943 with works number 69495 and shipped to the UK, arriving at the Port of Liverpool by May 1943. It was then seconded to the LNER and allocated to Leeds Neville Hill shed to work freight trains in and around the West Riding.

    Of the more than 2000 S160s made, over 800 saw service

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