BR Class 08 - BR Blue (Red Running Plate) - 08912 Wheelsets roof doors

roof doors

The locomotive entered traffic in 1955 and spent time working at Honeybourne

Clevedon & Portishead Railway and the Nidd Valley Railway

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BR Class 08 - BR Blue (Red Running Plate) - 08912 Wheelsets roof doorsEnglish 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