432477/1959 - British Railways No. 83 - BR Green

432477/1959 - British Railways No. 83 - BR GreenRuston 432477 was built new for British Railways, being delivered to the North Eastern Region Civil Engineers Department at Etherley Tip in Witton, County Durham on 5 January 1959. Expired track ballast and materials were dumped at Etherley in the post war years, with the ballast being removed from the wagons, then passed over a screen to separate the 'fines' and muck from the bigger bits of stone. The fines would be dumped in the nearest low spot,

Standard sleeper coach 15315

withdrawal came in April 1981 and the shunter was disposed of at Reading by Cartrights of Tipton in August 1982

along with the ‘E’ area number suffix and either L&NER or LNER

1st radius set-track)

7714 was an early “contractor” built locomotive

31106 on test trains

they soon went to work on a variety of trains for the Coal

Two extra NEM fitted magnetic couplings supplied with wagon packs to allow for fitting to locomotives and/or additional rolling stock

the York factory bought a new 0-6-0 locomotive and No

and was recorded in this livery variation - still with D-prefixed number - in the second half of 1969

although a few have remained

It was one of several locomotives hired by DRS and as such carries DB modifications like auto couplers and wing mirrors but the house colours of new operator DRS