V-weapons vast majority aimed at London; 2,515 reached the city, killing 6,184 civilians and injuring 17,981. Croydon to the south, on the flight path of the V1s suffered severely taking 142 hits. V-2 rocket launching sites were set up by the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on 6 September 1944. The first was launched from here against London on 8 September 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the 200 miles from the Hague to London where it struck at 6.43pm on 8 September on Chiswick causing thirteen casualties. As the V2 explosions came without warning, the
South African Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2 the knuckle itself to accommodate, respectively, a link and a pin to enable the locomotive to couple to rolling stock which was still equipped with the older link-and-pin type couplers. The week of 19 September 2017, surviving locomotive no. 2260, last used in the early 1970s, was moved from Millsite to Bloemfontein for preservation as part of the THF "A list". South African Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2 The South African Railways Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2 of 1925 was an articulated steam locomotive. Between 1925 and 1931, the South African Railways placed eighteen Class GE Garratt articulated locomotives with a Double Mikado type