8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 Pannier Tank including No

including No

New to 86A Cardiff Canton in January 1965 and then to Swansea Landore in 1972

The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945

For the next four years

8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 Pannier Tank including No9681. British Railways Black Livery, Late Crest 9681 was one of the last pannier tanks to be built. Emerging from Swindon Works in 1949 under the ownership of British Railways it was part of the penultimate lot of 10 locomotives. Initially allocated to Tondu in South Wales, it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life. Luckily it was bought by scrap merchant Dai Woodham and spent