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Accident damage! 27203 BRCW Type 2 (Class 27) seen awaiting its fate at Derby Works Open Day in 1984
Sat. 2nd June 1984 1Z38 - 'The Midland Executive' railtour, A rather excellent railtour that managed to include scheduled stops at Derby and Crewe for the two works open days :), , This shot shows accident damaged Scottish BRCW Type 2 27203, sadly stripped of all other reusable parts and awaiting its inevitable fate at Derby Works. To the right in the scrapline was Sulzer Type 2 'Rat' (Class 25) 25304., , 27203 was on a rake of oil tanks when it ran into the back of a Class 303 unit at Dalmuir station on Tuesday 14th Sep 1982. [Info courtesy of MagLad]. The loco arrived at Derby Works in late 1982 - repairs were not sanctioned and the loco was eventually broken up on the nearby Etches Park line by Vick Berry's (Info courtesy of Russ Butler), , Many Class 27s were renumbered after their original TOPS numbers were allocated in the 1970s. D5393 was converted to an Edinburgh-Glasgow push-pull loco in the early 1970s, and renumbered as 27121 in July 1974., , The British Rail Class 27 diesel locomotives were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) during 1961 and 1962. They were a development of the earlier Class 26; both were originally classified as the BRCW Type 2. The Class 27s were originally numbered D5347-D5415., , Loco history - D5393 was delivered new in June 1962. As with many other Class 27s, D5393 was converted to an Edinburgh-Glasgow push-pull loco in the early 1970s. The locomotive was renumbered as 27121 in July 1974, and renumbered again when fitted with ETH in November 1974 to 27203. Allocated 27057 after push-pull features were removed but not taken up? The locomotive was involved in an accident (as above) and withdrawn from service in late 1982., , Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration, , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
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