Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Magnesite Ore Wagons before settling at 31B March

before settling at 31B March in June 1962

original windscreens

It was involved in a major collision in 1980 that saw it gain plated nose doors at both ends

the same year that production at Renfrew was scaled back due to the recession

now all scrapped

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Magnesite Ore Wagons before settling at 31B MarchEntering 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