From War to Peace: The Story of Johnny.

In March 1916, #107, the 8th E2 Tank Engine that was designed by Lawson Butzkopfski (or Boskovsky) Billinton, rolled out of Brighton Works to begin work on the London & Brighton South Coast Railway. On the Southern Railway he was known as #2107, and on British Railways he was known as #32107. Where #32107 was treated cruelly by the British Railways Controller. On the 1st September 1939, When World War II first started, #32107 ran away to join the fight. He helped transport Army supplies and Soldiers from place to place in their battles against the Germans. #32107 became the first E2 Tank Engine in the War Department. On the 2nd December 1945, when the War ended, #32107 was celebrating with all the engines and soldiers until the British Railways Controller turned up, who he had not seen for a few years. He forced #32107 back into work before he was stored away in a Brickworks in 1959, where #32107 thought it was the end of the line. two years later during February 1961, Sir Topham Hatt,