Class 30 - BR Green - D5581D5581 BR green w SYPOutshopped from Brushs Falcon Works, Loughborough, exactly two years after our other third run green machine D5503, production headcode box fitted D5581 wears the eternally popular British Railways green with small yellow panels livery. New to 32A Norwich Thorpe in January 1960, it moved to 32B Ipswich just over a year later and then to 30A Stratford 12 months after that, before settling at 31B March in June 1962. With competition

repaints into the new blue scheme were not uncommon before 1970 and a not insignificant number gained double arrows and Rail alphabet numbers on all four cabsides

Throughout this period it was common in passenger service on both the Cardiff-Bristol-Weymouth and North Wales Coast diagrams as well as the ScotRail sleepers

Built as part of Lot 282

However before it moved to their home railway it was sold on to the Chinnor & Princes Risborough where it is still based and currently wears the attractive Derby RTC livery with the fictitious number 97205 as inspired by the real research department allocated Class 31 97204 which was scrapped in March 1997

LokPilot DCC Decoder (No Sound)

it has not yet returned to the main line

the operating system ensures standardized

EWS offered several locomotives for sale and 66250 was acquired by GBRF in 2017 and was allocated the new number 66789

being replaced by a Barclay Class 06 No

where they would join the seven European Passenger Services examples purchased the previous year

Originally this running number was allocated to ex GWR number 5752

Wagons are 195mm over buffers in length and 160g