BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 Livery_GMPTE 37 70 6955 279-4

37 70 6955 279-4

24113 - CIE Bauxite

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In an unveiling ceremony at York on the 10th May 2016

This became restricted to weekend work from 1992 along with several periods of store and around three years later it worked for the last time

BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 Livery_GMPTE 37 70 6955 279-4English 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