BR Class 08 - BR Blue - 08910English 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

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'Plate' bogies with oil axle box

It was cut up at Hull’s of Rotherham in February 2008

Injector overflow routed outside running plate

Upper central lamp iron: fitted

ACC2970 BSc South Wales grey - Pack 3

Used for scrap metal traffic in Scotland and North East England

WS Vents : Yes

From 2005 Fragonset became FM Rail and when that collapsed into administration at the end of the following year it was put up for sale

in CIE Silver Livery with 'Flying Snail'

before being renumbered as 7027 under the LNER

It spent several months hired to Direct Rail Services in 2014 and was sidelined again that same November