Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 Departmental Coaches

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 Departmental CoachesEntering 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

Water Filler : No

albeit with a few touch ups and the reapplication of the squadron markings

Oliver Bulleid

empty/loaded changeover levers and above solebar mounted brake distributor

These remained in service on the private railway with 16 and 21-ton former BR stock until the mid-1990s

it was finally cut up at MC Metals

it was allocated for trials of the developing “SEPEX” system

which was accessed from the 3 mile long Paisley & Renfrew line running from the east bank of the River Cart at Paisley to a wharf at Renfrew on the south bank of the River Clyde

Repatriated to the UK in time for the Crewe Basford Hall Open Day in August 1995

per prototype

Gearing arranged so locomotive can achieve a scale top speed of 120 mph (193 km/h)

Minimum Radius 438mm (2nd Radius Set-track) in OO