19810110_ZD_GerardFletcher
45 116, 46 009 & 25 287 Derby Works
Derby Works scrapline from the opposite end to that in the previous scan on January 10th 1981. , Nearest the camera are an externally perfect 46009 & 25287. Why 46009 was parked here is a mystery as it was in traffic until 1983, however it was dealt the unlucky card as it was the loco used in the infamous Old Dalby test track deliberate collision with a nuclear flask, so maybe it would have been better to just condemn it where it stood on this date ?, What of 25287 ? Well this had been reprieved from withdrawal in 1976 after a collision and lived to see another day - several in fact as it lasted until 1985. It seems then that the fact that these two locomotives were parked in what I was told was the scrapline was purely for reasons of space., On the left in the background is 45116 which is in the test house while receiving a classified repair, which saw it last in service until 1986.
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