North Eastern Railway designed W.Worsdell 'J72' class 0-6-0 Tank No. 68745. Built at Doncaster in November 1925 as LNER No. 500 and withdrawn in September 1961.

York South had three sheds, two were ancient roundhouses falling into disrepair and the third was this through straight shed of a much later date, seen here in the 1950s. Both the LNER and BR continued to build Wilson Wordell's 'J72s'. As far as I know, the ten built at Doncaster (that included 68745) were the only NER designs to be built outside former NER territory at Doncaster's former GNR 'Plant'.

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