408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue - DCC Sound Fitted Freightliner B333635 Self-contained buffers HOP 24

B333635   Self-contained buffers HOP 24 1/2 marking [route info blanked out]

Birchills B

'Split' style nose grilles

British Railways 24

set into small

408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue - DCC Sound Fitted Freightliner B333635 Self-contained buffers HOP 24Ruston 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