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0-6-0 Class 08 Shunting locomotive, British Railways No.D3558 (08443)

0-6-0 Class 08 Shunting locomotive, British Railways No.D3558 (08443)
Shunting duties at Bo'ness, 2007. Picture SRPS.

SRPS Core Collection, acquired 1993. Operational.
Built 1958, BR Derby. 350 BHP.

The first British Railways diesel locomotives in Scotland were BR standard type 350hp shunters (later Class 08), introduced at Grangemouth Docks in 1955. Over the next decade many more were delivered and the design was so successful that many remain in service throughout Britain, although traffic requirements are very different. Almost 1,000 of these locomotives were built between 1952 and 1962. The design has its origin on the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1934, and essentially consists of a diesel-electric power unit mounted on the frames and wheels of a steam engine. It was an outstandingly successful type.

D3558 when new was based at Polmont Shed, Stirlingshire. In 1973, it was renumbered 08443. It was withdrawn from Thornton Junction, Fife, in 1985, and sold to Scottish Grain Distillers for use at Cambus Distillery in Stirlingshire, where it worked until it was donated to SRPS in 1993.

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