45 116, 46 009 & 25 287 Derby Works - a photo on Flickriver

            Derby Works scrapline from the opposite end to that in the previous scan on January 10th 1981. 
Nearest the camera are an externally perfect 46009 & 25287. Why 46009 was parked here is a mystery as it was in traffic until 1983, however it was dealt the unlucky card as it was the loco used in the infamous Old Dalby test track deliberate collision with a nuclear flask, so maybe it would have been better to just condemn it where it stood on this date ?
  What of 25287 ?  Well this had been reprieved from withdrawal in 1976 after a collision and lived to see another day - several in fact as it lasted until 1985. It seems then that the fact that these two locomotives were parked in what I was told was the scrapline was purely for reasons of space.
 On the left in the background is 45116 which is in the test house while receiving a classified repair, which saw it last in service until 1986.
   

Taken on: January 10, 1981

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46009

25287

Class 25

Class 45

Class 46

Derby Works

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Sets appears in: • Railways 1981 • The Peaks : BR Classes 44.45 & 46 more » • BR Class 25 • Vintage BR Diesel Pictures « less

Groups appears in: • UK Class 24/25/26/27 (Sulzer Type 2's) • UK Class 44/45/46 (Sulzer 1 Co-Co 1 Type 4's) more » • ! British Rail 1981(No 30/60 Limit) • BR Diesels in the 1980s • Railways around the Derby area, the 1970's, 80's and 90's « less

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