Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023Entering 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

Second locomotive with the new larger design cab but still featuring early details such as tank fillers

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This time for the movie “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”

with posable steel plate hoods in Blue British Steel Livery:

An ESU Lokpilot DCC decoder which is custom programmed for Accurascale Class 50 locomotives

Initially retaining its Europorte brandings and working in both the UK and France in April 2015 it was moved to Brush Traction

GB Railfreight (Current Livery)

While there was a brief burst of optimism in 2002 when it was purchased by Direct Rail Services as an engine test bed

Bogies feature separate footsteps

All windows still in place

at the Arsenal complex near Vienna in Austria

and they are still in use today with Network Rail