Toton Down yard pilot on the 16th October 2010 is veteran class 08 diesel shunter 08567.

Locomotive History
08567 was originally D3734 and was built at Crewe works over fifty years ago, entering traffic in April 1959, allocated to Edinburgh (St Margaret’s) MPD. It transferred to the ex Caledonian Railway shed in Edinburgh, Dalry Road in February 1963 and transferred to Dundee when Dalry Road closed in October 1965. This was followed by a period of regular transfer with spells at Leith Central (1967), Thornton Junction (1968) and Dunfermline Townhill (1970) until transferred south to Doncaster in February 1972. Four months later it transferred to Hull Botanic Gardens and would spend the next fifteen years at Hull, being fitted with dual train brakes during a classified repair at Swindon works in October 1985. The next sixteen years would be spent allocated to York, Bletchley and Bescot and its next overhaul would be an E Exam at Ferrybridge in the summer of 2003 when it acquired EWS livery. Whilst operating at Daventry IRFT in February 2004, 08567 suffered a fire and following assessment was stored in April 2004. After four years in store it was eventually repaired at Doncaster Carr depot and reinstated to traffic in April 2008. Since reinstatement it has been in use at Didcot, Oxford, Ketton, Newport and Rugby before returning to Toton in July 2010 for a D exam and remote control equipment fitment. In June 2011 it moved to Mossend and in October 2012 was displaced by 08995 and moved to Crewe ETD.

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Toton Down yard pilot on 08567 has just been “fired up” in order to perform a spot of shunting, 6th November 2010.

Locomotive History
08567 was originally D3734 and was built at Crewe works over fifty years ago, entering traffic in April 1959, allocated to Edinburgh (St Margaret’s) MPD. It transferred to the ex Caledonian Railway shed in Edinburgh, Dalry Road in February 1963 and transferred to Dundee when Dalry Road closed in October 1965. This was followed by a period of regular transfer with spells at Leith Central (1967), Thornton Junction (1968) and Dunfermline Townhill (1970) until transferred south to Doncaster in February 1972. Four months later it transferred to Hull Botanic Gardens and would spend the next fifteen years at Hull, being fitted with dual train brakes during a classified repair at Swindon works in October 1985. The next sixteen years would be spent allocated to York, Bletchley and Bescot and its next overhaul would be an E Exam at Ferrybridge in the summer of 2003 when it acquired EWS livery. Whilst operating at Daventry IRFT in February 2004, 08567 suffered a fire and following assessment was stored in April 2004. After four years in store it was eventually repaired at Doncaster Carr depot and reinstated to traffic in April 2008. Since reinstatement it has been in use at Didcot, Oxford, Ketton, Newport and Rugby before returning to Toton in July 2010 for a D exam and remote control equipment fitment. In June 2011 it moved to Mossend and in October 2012 was displaced by 08995 and moved to Crewe ETD.

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Visible between the trees and buildings at the back of Toton depot is stored 08798, 16th October 2010. The class 08 is the standard British Railways shunting engine and from 1953 to 1962, nine hundred and ninety six locomotives were built, making it the most numerous of all British locomotive classes. Also built in the same period were twenty six near identical (but fitted with a higher ratio gearing) class 09 locomotives and one hundred and seventy one mechanically identical locomotives but fitted with different combinations of engines and electrical equipment. This made total number of outwardly-similar machines to one thousand one hundred and ninety three. The class 08 design was based on the London Midland and Scottish Railway 12033 series (later class 11) design introduced in 1945.

Locomotive History
08798 was originally D3966 and was built at Derby works, entering traffic in May 1960, allocated initially to Tyseley, transferring to Old Oak Common around 1963. It would remain at Old Oak Common for the next twenty five years, being fitted with dual train brakes during a classified repair at Swindon works in January 1986 before transfer to Landore. The next seventeen years were to be spent either in South Wales or the West Country (Exeter, Plymouth and St Blazey) and spent almost eighteen months out of service at St Blazey from July 2000 awaiting generator repairs and a B exam which were completed at the end of 2001. During February 2004 it received an E exam at Toton, was fitted with the TPWS equipment and repainted in EWS livery. The next few years would find 08798 working at Wembley, Carlisle and Millerhill until it arrived at Doncaster Carr Depot in June 2008 and was stored awaiting repair. It was reinstated in July 2009 and moved to Eastleigh but stored again in December 2009 with fuel contamination problems. It was moved to Toton in January 2010. It is currently (November 2013) awaiting its fate at EMR Attercliffe.

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66005 gently “ticks over” as it awaits it next duty in the Down yard at Toton, 16th October 2010. 66005 was built in August 1998 by General Motors - Electro Motive Division at their factory in London, Ontario, Canada for Angel Trains (Leasing) and is leased to DB Schenker. It arrived in the UK at Newport docks at the end of 1998.

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