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56050 and 56044 power through Cardiff Central with a Port Talbot to Llanwern iron ore train on 22 August 1983
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56050 and 56044 power through Cardiff Central with a Port Talbot to Llanwern iron ore train on 22 August 1983

  • 56003 passes the rear of Gateshead depot in July 1988 with a rake of empty coal wagons
  • 56050 and 56044 power through Cardiff Central with a Port Talbot to Llanwern iron ore train on 22 August 1983
  • 50017 'Royal Oak' pulls into Reading with a down express on 22 March 1985
  • 56050 pulls into Reading with stone empties on 22 March 1985
  • With another load of iron ore for Llanwern 56032 'County of South Glamorgan' and 56044 head toward Cardiff on 24 April 1985
  • 50037 'Illustrious' runs through Taunton on 24 April 1985
  • 56018 waits for a crew while parked in the yard next to Thornaby depot on 3 May 1985
  • 50015 runs into Reading with an up express on 22 October 1982
  • 50037 'Glorious' is at the rear of Old Oak Common depot on 14 November 1982 in the large logo livery
  • 56037 'Richard Trevithick' and 56041 lead a Llanwern ore train through Newport on 23 November 1982 heading back to Port Talbot
  • 56037 'Richard Trevithick' and 56041 lead a Llanwern ore train through Newport on 23 November 1982 heading back to Port Talbot
  • 50043 sits in Fratton Yard on empty stock in May 1984
  • Having been named that morning before release into traffic the following week 56133 "Crewe Locomotive Works" sits in its birthplace at the Open Day on 2 June 1984
  • 56043 heads west through Twyford with a train of tank wagons on 26 August 1983
  • Waiting for its next duty hauling merry go round trains of coal 56071 is at Toton depot on 21 August 1984
  • 56054 sits in the sun outside Toton shed on 22 August 1984
  • 56084 was stabled at Nottingham on 22 July 1984
  • 56069 is stabled at Nottingham on 22 July 1984
  • 56023 heads south through York with a loaded merry-go-round service on 2 October 1985
  • 56088 powers through Chesterfield on a fine summer's day on 3 June 1985
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