BR Class 08 - BR Blue (Red Running Plate) - 08912 Wagon Type_Palvan EWS Livery

EWS Livery

in 1969 the still embryonic Northern Ireland Railways set out to improve the Dublin-Belfast ‘Enterprise’ service

Our model represents 73968 in the condition it was first adapted to work with the new Mk5 coaches with drop Dellner coupler and two-part snowploughs but still retaining 3rd rail equipment

Works number ‘3806’ led an average working life

BR Class 08 - BR Blue (Red Running Plate) - 08912 Wagon Type_Palvan EWS LiveryEnglish 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