408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue Coach Type_TSO running plate and body

running plate and body

Bodyshell - factory-fitted separate details

Although intially outshopped with plated headcode still extant this was removed on its repaint into the 'fade' scheme in 2014 and the Accurascale model will correctly feature the smoothed off nose

Class 37/6 - 37608

then 7050 under the LNER

408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue Coach Type_TSO running plate and bodyRuston 408493 was built new for British Railways Western Region, for use at the Signalling & Telecommunications Department workshops at Reading and was delivered on 19 January 1957. Taking the Departmental number 20, the locomotive spent its entire lifetime at Reading, housed under the Vastern Road bridge when not in use. Renumbered in 1973 under TOPS, to 97020, withdrawal came in April 1981 and the shunter was disposed of at Reading by Cartrights of