Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 Wagon Type_MDO 21 Ton Hopper battery box and full-formed compressor

battery box and full-formed compressor detail with extensive pipework and other separate parts

the operator being responsible for providing Class 37s for freight

known as TSO(T)

Note: Photographs depict the decorated samples

revised door warning stickers and the NRN roof pod provided in an accessory pack

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 Wagon Type_MDO 21 Ton Hopper battery box and full-formed compressorEntering service in December 1984, 58023 was a typical mid batch locomotive. Most reliability modifications had been undertaken, but not the more drastic changes seen on the second batch. Outshopped in Red Stripe livery, it worked for a couple of years before being displayed at the Welbeck Colliery open day on 25th June 1989 in ex works Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding. A locomotive that spent a good few years unnamed, it worked like this