Sunday 19 February 2017

Eastleigh Works, 18th February 2017


RMB 1813 was built at BR Wolverton to Lot 30520 entered traffic in March 1960, and came out of regular traffic in July 1992.

57011 has been in storage since June 2016, and was moved to Eastleigh Works in January to swap bogies with 57308. [Update: they may have been swapped with 57303.] It arrived along with 57303, also seen in this picture. This locomotive was new as D1810 in February 1965 to D16 Toton. In May 1974 it became 47329, then rebuilt to 57011 in March 2000 for Freightliner.

Currently resident 08790.