BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 Livery_GMPTE This became restricted to weekend

This became restricted to weekend work from 1992 along with several periods of store and around three years later it worked for the last time

Designed specifically for the accurascale Class 30 locomotive

while the BR double arrow was finally ditched – an original condition of the new sector identity from ‘the board’ – in favour of the West of England route branding

the Coal branding gave way briefly to Mainline logos before a full repaint into Mainline’s Aircraft Blue was undertaken

Penzance-St Erth-St Ives

BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 Livery_GMPTE This became restricted to weekendEnglish 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