The Restoration & Archiving Trust
The first 3 pictures depict two members of the Hellenic State Railways Lb class of which their were 16 examples. These were built for War Department use by North British in 1943 and shipped to the Middle East. They were run in on Palestine Railways and then placed in store at Suez until sold to Greece in 1946 and put into traffic on the line east from Salonika to the Turkish border at Pithion, They were progressively withdrawn from service between 1973 & 1976, although seven were still extant in 1997, a couple of these being located on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, having returned to Britain in 1984.
