Photos BR Class 08518 and 08427 Diesel Shunter Locos For Scrap 1989

Class 08518 & 08427 Diesel Shunters

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Destined For The Scrapyard?

Two diesel shunter locomotives, Class 08518, with 08427 at the rear, both in BR Blue livery, stand on sidings in Whitemoor Yard, near March, Cambridgeshire, Uk, on the 9th May 1989 as two of many old BR locos destined for the scrapyard.

When built 08518 carried the number D3680 entering service on the 19th July 1958 after delivery to Stratford depot.

08518 was withdrawn from service on the 22nd July 1986 and cut up at Gwent Demolition (Margam) on the25th March 1994.

Shunter Class 08427 carried the number D3542 when released into service at Perth South depot on the 29th August 1958.

Withdrawn on the 14th November 1986, 08427 was cut up at Gwent Demolition (Margam) on the 25th March 1994. 

 

 

Class 08 Shunter Historical Note:
At Tinsley Marshalling Yard near Sheffield, UK, six '08' shunters were coupled in three pairs for shunting operations.  In each pair one locomotive cab was removed; its power controlled from the 'cabbed' 08.  This combination of power units were classified as Class 13.

The three pairs worked together in Tinsley Yard for twenty years until early 1985 when hump-shunting came to an end.

 

They were numbered thus: D4500 (D3698  D4188), D4501 (D4189  D4190), D4502 (D3696  D4187).

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