Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023Entering service in December 1984, 58023 was a typical mid batch locomotive. Most reliability modifications had been undertaken, but not the more drastic changes seen on the second batch. Outshopped in Red Stripe livery, it worked for a couple of years before being displayed at the Welbeck Colliery open day on 25th June 1989 in ex works Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding. A locomotive that spent a good few years unnamed, it worked like this

5 mm Gauge

FCA 610092 EWS + West Waste x3 (C057

Railfreight Red

magnet 'wand' controlled interior lighting

Our locomotive was built without topfeed but had it fitted probably around the same time that it was repainted in to black as it continued in this condition for some years in to BR use

Pack A: North Eastern Railway - Three P1 style Chaldrons

Like other class members

larger horn box and euro horn notes

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It kept its Ironbridge plates briefly before being renamed “Petrolea”—plates which had been transferred from 47374 to 37888 before finally landing on 58042

which resulted in the loss of its centre pair of discs

66421 was refreshed with the new simplified DRS livery during 2015 and ran unnamed until 2018 when it featured at the DRS Crewe Gresty Bridge TMD open day where it was named after the depot