BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 - DCC Sound Livery_British Gypsum Named in October 1978 and

Named in October 1978 and refurbished in May 1982

A matching crew designed and produced in the UK specifically for the Accurascale class 30 and 31 by our partners Modelu

all out of use

A potential reprieve came in September 1999 when it was sold to Fragonset with the intention of re-instating it to traffic

Dagenham (for Ford) and even to Poole

BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 - DCC Sound Livery_British Gypsum Named in October 1978 andEnglish 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