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| Class 58 | See Technical Data |
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| No. 58043, viewed from the No. 1 or cooler group end shows the original livery applied of a grey body, wrap around yellow ends and red sole bar complete with a full height BR logo on the body side. The modular design of this fleet gave east access to internal equipment via side opening doors, and if needed sections of the body could be removed from the common frame for repair or replacement. CJM. |
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These two views show the triple grey livery, No. 58012 on the left has coal sector side branding, while No. 58010 on the right is devoid of business ownership marks. These two views show the two sides of the locos, which are virtually the same. No. 58010 shows an ex paint shop example with bogie and buffer beam parts picked out in the correct colours. No. 58012 is seen at Merehead and 58010 at Doncaster Works. Both: CJM. |  |
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| Under shadow privatisation and the formation of three freight operators, each tried to establish its own livery. Mainline Freight adopted this very popular aircraft blue, which can still be seen on the national network in mid-2001. No. 58014 shows this scheme off when just released from the paint shop at ABB Doncaster. In this guise the full running number is applied to the front end. On the cab roof part of the flat National Radio Network system is seen. CJM. |
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| Class 58 front end equipment. Designed for freight train operation, no form of train heating was fitted, and as by the time these were designed vacuum brakes were being phased out, only air brakes were installed. A-warning horns behind grille, B-red diamond multiple control cable, C-red diamond multiple control jumper socket, D-marker light box, red (tail) above and white (marker) below, E-headlight, F-coupling, G-brake pipe, H-main reservoir pipe, I-loco engine control air pipe. No. 58037 is illustrated at Toton. CJM. |
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| Class 58 cab layout, these were the first production locos to have a pedestal power controller with walk round access, which was later followed by the GM Class 59 and 66 fleets. This example shows a NRN radio fitted on the left side below the telephone handset, TPWS on the right of the cab window with a Datacord event recorder below. CJM. |
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| Class 58 No. 5811 displaying ACTS livery. CJM |
| Last Updated: 31 August 2006 |
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