8750 Class - 3608 - GWR Green Shirtbutton Livery_Network Rail Yellow Switchable red tail lights

Switchable red tail lights

Note: Photograph is of an early sample

That November it gained the new name Driver Dave Green and the following month it became one of just three Class 31s to gain brackets for UV spotlights for use with the Structure Gauging Train

This was the final relaxation of BR’s restrictive rules on naming that had been steadily eroded over the previous decade

8750 Class - 3608 - GWR Green Shirtbutton Livery_Network Rail Yellow Switchable red tail lightsCompleted at Swindon on the 2nd of Feb 1939 as part of Lot 314, was new to Oxford shed. Another of the type to have the more modern cab fitted as part of the 8750 variant, this had many of the later features you would associate with the type, such as the bunker steps and later type fillers. It was however built before the fitting of top feed and this would be added later. Another engine that would spend most of its life around one shed, it would not