A recent arrival at the Great Central Railway is 08907, stabled in the sidings at Loughborough, 2nd January 2017.

Locomotive History
08907 was built at Horwich Works as D4137 and entered traffic in June 1962 allocated to Burton MPD. In December 1965 it transferred to Leicester and in September 1969 to Holyhead where it remained until February 1983 when it transferred to Crewe. It spent its later years allocated to Old Oak Common, Bescot, Crewe and Toton although these allocations in the latter years became rather meaningless with respect to the locomotives actual location. It received an E exam in March 2003 at Ferrybridge, a repaint into DB livery at Bescot in October 2013 and sold to a private owner by DB Cargo in November 2016.

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A recent arrival at the Great Central Railway is Great Western Railway 0-4-0ST 1340 Trojan, stabled on a section of rail at Loughborough, 2nd January 2017.

Locomotive History
Trojan was built by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol in 1897 (Works No. 1386) for Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock. It was purchased by the Alexandra Docks Railway in 1903, and on absorption of the Alexandra Docks Railway into the Great Western in 1923, “Trojan” received the number 1340. Although based mainly at Cardiff Cathays and Radyr depots, it also worked for a time in Oswestry and Greenford, London. It was withdrawn from Cardiff by the Great Western Railway in July 1932 and was sold to the Netherseal colliery at Burton-on-Trent, who sold it on to Alders (Tamworth) ltd in 1947. Sold for preservation it arrived at the Didcot Railway Centre in 1968 and was eventually restored returning to traffic in 2002. It is currently awaiting overhaul.

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Great Western Railway 153372 stands in the bay platform at Swindon working along with 158763 2G82, 09:36 Swindon – Cheltenham Spa, 6th January 2017.

Unit History
153372 was originally part of a two car class 155 two car unit 155322 built in 1988 and allocated to Cardiff Canton for local services in Wales and the South West and longer distance services to Birmingham and Manchester. In 1992 it was decided to convert most of the class 155 fleet into single car units by the addition of an additional cab and they were rebuilt by Hunslet – Barclay at Kilmarnock with 155322 becoming 153322 and 153372.

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Great Western Railway 158763 departs Weston super Mare working 2D14, 13:10 Weston super Mare – Bristol Parkway, 20th January 2017.

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158852 stands in the rain in platform 5 at Derby, 20th January 2017.

Unit History
158852 is from the second batch of class 158 units (158815—158862) which are fitted with 350 bhp Perkins engines in lieu of the 350bhp Cummings engines fitted to the majority of class (158701—158814 and 158901—158910) or the 400 bhp Cummins engines fitted to the final batch (158863—158872). 158852 was initially allocated to Norwich for East Anglia – Midlands and North West services. Almost twenty years later it is operated by East Midlands Trains, allocated to Nottingham and used principally on the same East Anglia – North West services it worked when delivered from Derby Works in 1992.

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