412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound FittedRuston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the

Underslung fuel tank with inactive boiler water tank

22816 (ex-22536) B1 MSO

PR26549 (ladder)

Stratford depot 'cockney sparrow' motifs

Gummed branding labels with yellow dot

A total of forty of these striking vehicles were built in three batches for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) by WH Davis in the UK between 2014 and 2019

Made in Britain

with the exception of the Original Class 37 which can be found here

Mark 2b SO (ex-FO) - 927

Factory-fitted etched metal details where required

Upper central lamp iron: present

Plymouth’s Laira depot also outshopped the former 50049 Defiance in the stunning new Railfreight General livery with re-geared CP7 bogies and new 50149 number