Hi, any update on the two 58's that were sold recently?
Hi, any update on the two 58's that were sold recently?
I should go and check that out some time soon then!012 and 023 now both live on the Battlefield Line.
Don't ask about the condition of 58008 at Easleigh ...... component recovery well underway, engine still fitted, but not much else. Time for the gas axe. .....
are these locos preserved or for re sale or re-activation on the main line?
how many class 58s are preserved now? I have just read of 2 ... 16? owned by class 58 group and another one sold to someone recently.
Tim
050 is supposedly reserved for the NRM (last loco built at Doncaster works) but has been slowly rotting away in France for over a decade...
Not sure if it was one of the recently sold 58s, but this evening at 6pm there was a 58 on the back of a low loader at the end of the A50 from derby way just before the M1 junction. It was in very faded EWS colours and appeared to possibly still have its engine / lots of big internal gubbins still fitted as half the panels on the side were missing and you could see the big gray lump inside.
I didn't get a unit number sadly as I was driving the other way, but it would be interesting to see if anyone knows anything about it,
Could've been 048, that one's still in EWS colours. Lord knows what it was doing on a low-loader, or where it was going...