Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Irish Wagons

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Irish WagonsEntering 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

including Bletchley

which also saw it employed on unit substitutions between Norwich and Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft the following year

Completely new

5t hoppers (HUO)

Separately switched cab lighting and illuminated

and later acquired the Sir Dyfed / County of Dyfed nameplates from No

HYA 37 70 6791 076-2

8750 style cab

All were mounted on Y33 bogies and outwardly similar

31013- Red Oxide

and the most important functions can even be accessed "blindly

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