bomb attacks. British Railways Seventeen members of the class survived the nationalisation of the Southern Railway to form British Railways in January 1948 but many of these had been in storage for several years. The last surviving example in BR service was withdrawn from Nine Elms in December 1951 and no examples have been preserved. Private ownership In 1947, the Whittingham Hospital Railway in Lancashire acquired number 2357 from the Southern Railway at a cost of £750. It was renamed James Fryers in honour of the Chairman of the Hospital Management Committee. Serious boiler defects in 1956 curtailed its working career and the engine was scrapped that year when it proved beyond economic repair. At that time, it was the sole surviving member of its class. Accidents and incidents On 1 September 1897, an Eastbourne to Tunbridge Wells train crashed at Tooth's Bank, between and . The locomotive ('D1' Class tank No. 297 Bonchurch) and several carriages left the track and fell down an embankment, resulting in the death of the driver, James McKenly, and injuries to the fireman and 30 passengers. At the inquiry, Lt. Col. G. W. Addison reported that the main cause of the accident was excessive speed as the driver was attempting to make up lost time in order to make a connection at . The track itself was in poor shape with many rotten sleepers and "curves having irregular elevation" which contributed to the accident. Following the inquiry, much of the track was relaid and the train scheduling was altered. In 1904, a freight train hauled by locomotive No. 239 Patcham was derailed at Cocking, West Sussex. On 3 April 1916, a passenger train hauled by locomotive No. 273 Dornden was derailed between Crowborough & Jarvis Brook and stations, East Sussex. On 4 August 1920, a passenger train was unable to stop at due to an error leaving it with insufficient brake force. Locomotive No. 360 ran through a buffer stop and ended up in the road. Thirteen people were injured. Locomotive summary Descendants The D1 class had a lasting influence on a number of locomotive classes designed by Stroudley himself, and his two assistants Robert Billinton and Dugald Drummond. Stroudley produced a tender locomotive version of the design for secondary passenger duties which was later classified D2, and then went on to build express passenger versions of the 'Richmond' and B1 classes. Likewise, Billinton