8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 Pannier Tank with metal Chain links

with metal Chain links

Ruston 432477 was built new for British Railways

Resurrected at Barrow Hill it returned to the main line in November 2022 in an extraordinary shade of 'tango' orange that originally debuted on his former Class 20/3 machines in 2012

While most Mk

The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945

8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 Pannier Tank with metal Chain links9681. British Railways Black Livery, Late Crest 9681 was one of the last pannier tanks to be built. Emerging from Swindon Works in 1949 under the ownership of British Railways it was part of the penultimate lot of 10 locomotives. Initially allocated to Tondu in South Wales, it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life. Luckily it was bought by scrap merchant Dai Woodham and spent