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

Still in the fleet of DB Cargo

Metal helical gears fitted for maximum performance and slow speed running

Coal load on removable insert for your wagons

Iarnrod Eireann / IE Two-axle Ballast Hopper multi-pack E

This attractively liveried Austerity was built in 1945 by W

250hp A1A-A1A machines that this particular example spent its first few weeks on display at its new acquired sister firm Mirrlees’ Hazel Grove factory

footplate & interior detail

This proved to be a boon for the departmental businesses which engorged themselves

before being renumbered as 7027 under the LNER

Also evident are slightly more polished areas than it would have had during squadron service as well as the mandatory OHLE warning flashes on the step areas

and routes – no need for manual setup

It was one of just two Mk