Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Accessory Type_Couplers * Detailed interior with rivets

* Detailed interior with rivets

British Railways 21 Ton Coal 21VB / MDV Wagons

Its last boiler ticket expired in 2016 and is undergoing overhaul to return it to working condition

but that is another story…

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Accessory Type_Couplers * Detailed interior with rivetsEntering service in December 1984, 58023 was a typical mid batch locomotive. Most reliability modifications had been undertaken, but not the more drastic changes seen on the second batch. Outshopped in Red Stripe livery, it worked for a couple of years before being displayed at the Welbeck Colliery open day on 25th June 1989 in ex works Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding. A locomotive that spent a good few years unnamed, it worked like this