Down Class C fitted freight passing Rugby with two Type 1 Diesels
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Down Class C fitted freight passing Rugby with two Type 1 Diesels
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 30 Oct 1959
View eastward, towards London etc., LMR West Coast Main Line. In 1959 Dieselisation was in its early stages, but these English-Electric/Vulcan Type 1 1,000hp Bo-Bo, the first (built in 1957) of a production series that proved very successful, especially when used in pairs as seen here: Nos. D8000 + D8002 are probably on the 14.55 Camden - Crewe fast freight. (The girder-bridge in the distance carried the ex-Great Central main line over the WCML). After withdrawal in 10/80, No. D8000 (by then No. 20050) received the honour of preservation at the National Railway Museum, York.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.377934
Longitude
-1.247816