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08867_1977_05_Worksop

            08867 heads a row of four class 08’s stabled in the yard at Worksop. 7th May 1977. 

Locomotive History
The class 08 is the standard British Railways shunting engine and from 1953 to 1962, nine hundred and ninety six locomotives were built, making it the most numerous of all British locomotive classes. There were also in the same period twenty six near identical (but higher-geared) class 09 locomotives built, and one hundred and seventy one similar (but fitted with different engines and electrical equipment) locomotives built which together brought the total number of outwardly-similar machines to one thousand one hundred and ninety three. The class 08 design was based on the London Midland and Scottish Railway 12033 series (later class 11) design introduced in 1945. 08867 was originally D4035 and it was built at Darlington works and entered traffic in October 1960, allocated to Sheffield Darnall. It transferred to Tinsley when Darnall closed. By 1974 it was a Shirebrook engine (which supplied the Worksop pilots) and in early 1983 it made the long journey to Swindon works for classified repair. When it was outshopped it had been fitted with dual train brakes and was reallocated to Thornaby. By 1999 it had migrated to Allerton from where it was withdrawn in November 1999. It was briefly used by AV Dawson, Middlesborough around July 2002 before being stored at Ferrybridge until October 2005 when it was transported to TJ Thompson’s yard at Stockton. There it lingered until June 2007 when it was broken up.
   

Taken in: UK / England / Bassetlaw / Rhodesia (show map)

Taken on: August 5, 2011

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7th May

Sets appears in: • Class 08 • May 1977

Groups appears in: • Nottinghamshire • UK Class 08/09 more » • Rail UK : Built or Powered by English Electric, Vulcan or RSH • Great Central, East of Sheffield • UK Diesel Shunters • Classic UK rail traction • BR Diesels in the 1970s & 1980s (Closed Group) • British Railways (1948 to 1995) • ! Darlington Locomotive Works Built (No 30/60 Limit) • South Yorkshire Railway History « less

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