Railway History

[Deltic]

After the storm of 1953 that caused lots of flooding with tragic loss of life, two B.R. Steam locomotives assisted two ships in a railway owned dock. I would be grateful if anybody could tell me where the dock was and the class or numbers of the locomotives.

[dotty.]

this may help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_flood_of_1953
http://www.floodsite.net/juniorfloodsite/html/en/student/thingstoknow/hydrology/1953flood.html
http://thamesweb.com/1953-floods.html
http://www.essex-estuaries.co.uk/1953Floods.htm