BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Coal Triple Grey - 08995 - DCC Sound Locomotive Class_Class 73 Accurate interiors with characteristic 'winged'

Accurate interiors with characteristic 'winged' headrests

Wolverhampton

BSC Axle Motion bogies

While its next stop was Thornaby

Over the next few years it would be allocated to the parcels and departmental sectors as well as NSE’s Thames and West of England passenger pools before it was officially retired in March 1992

BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Coal Triple Grey - 08995 - DCC Sound Locomotive Class_Class 73 Accurate interiors with characteristic 'winged'English Electrics 1934 diesel electric shunter No. 7079 for the LMS proved highly successful and led to further orders across all the Big Four railways. Its lineage fed directly into British Railways push, after 1948 nationalisation, to create a standardised large shunting locomotive. Drawing heavily on the LMS 350 hp design but incorporating improvements and flexibility for different engines and electrical equipment, the resulting BR standard 0 6 0