35-175 ROD 2-8-0 1918 Railway Operating Division

The Railway Operating Division (ROD) 2-8-0 is a type of steam locomotive which was the standard heavy freight locomotive operated in Europe by the ROD during the First World War. The ROD adopted the Great Central Railway Class 8K 2-8-0 designed by John G. Robinson in 1911.

There were three batches of orders. The first batch was placed between February and June 1917 for 223 locomotives, the second was for 100 locomotives, placed between February and August 1918, and the third order for 188 more in Autumn 1918 was intended to sustain the UK's locomotive manufacturing industry after the war. The 521 ROD 2-8-0s were built as follows: 369 by the North British Locomotive Company, 82 by Robert Stephenson and Company, 32 by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, 32 by Kitson and Company and six by the Great Central Railway's Gorton Works.