20122 leads 20206 and a train of loaded HAA coal hoppers into Falkland Yard, Ayr, 30th August 1978. 20122 was always a Scottish engine from being built as D8122 in 1962 until withdrawal in January 1991. Its initial allocation was to Polmadie MPD it then moved to Eastfield and in the mid 1980’s had a spell at Motherwell before moving back to Eastfield. Following withdrawal it was eventually broken up by MC Metals, Glasgow in October 1993. 20206 was built in as D8306 in 1967, withdrawn in April 1991 but not broken up until March 2004 by CF Booth, Rotherham after years of being slowly stripped for spares.
20122 leads 20206 and a train of loaded HAA coal hoppers into Falkland Yard, Ayr, 30th August 1978. 20122 was always a Scottish engine from being built as D8122 in 1962 until withdrawal in January 1991. Its initial allocation was to Polmadie MPD it then moved to Eastfield and in the mid 1980’s had a spell at Motherwell before moving back to Eastfield. Following withdrawal it was eventually broken up by MC Metals, Glasgow in October 1993. 20206 was built in as D8306 in 1967, withdrawn in April 1991 but not broken up until March 2004 by CF Booth, Rotherham after years of being slowly stripped for spares.
26th February 2009
On this Day in History – Toton – 15th March 1970.
John's Railway Gallery @ fotopic.net
20184 and 20216 head for Longannet Power Station with a loaded MGR coal train at Dunfermline Lower, 14th April 1977. 20184 was originally D8184 and was built in 1967. It was allocated to Toton from new and was to spend the next six years in the Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire coalfields until 1973 when it and 8179 were transferred from Toton to Scotland and fitted with dual brakes and slow speed control for Longannet MGR circuit duties. It would remain on these duties until the mid 1980’s when following the decline of the coal industry and the growth of imported coal the Longannet traffic patterns changed. It was a relatively early casualty being withdrawn with less than twenty years service in October 1986 and broken up by Vic Berry, Leicester in June 1988. 20216 was originally D8316, built in 1967 and would spend virtually all its career allocated to Edinburgh Haymarket working the Fife coal traffic, although by withdrawal in November 1987 it had migrated to Toton. 20216 was broken up by Vic Berry, Leicester in September 1988.Previous | NextD8 Penyghent stabled at Darley Dale, Peak Rail, 29th December 2008. One of the ten Pilot Scheme Peak class locomotives D8 was delivered to Camden in December 1959 but it was immediately loaned to Derby. During May 1960 it was transferred to Crewe North. During the early part of February 1962 D8 moved to Nottingham, the precursor of the eventual move of the class to Toton for use on heavy freight duties. In May 1962 D8 moved to Toton. In the mid 1970’s the ten class 44 locomotives started to be withdrawn. Surprisingly D8, now numbered 44008 visited Derby Works during November 1979, not for withdrawal but for engine repairs, It would remain under repair at Derby until early July 1980 when it was tested on the 12.07 Derby - St Pancras, (with 45121 as the train engine) and 44008 was removed at Leicester, returning light engine to Derby and re-entered traffic at Toton. . Despite its recent Works attention 44008's reprieve was brief, it was withdrawn along with the two remaining Class 44's during November 1980, and stored at Toton. In July 1981 the locomotive moved north to Scotland heading for preservation on the Strathspey Railway at Boat of Garten in the Highlands. Following the sale of a very forlorn 44008 to the North Notts Locomotive Group in 1987 the locomotive returned to the East Midlands and is now based at Peak Rail.

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