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BR Shunting Locomotives - Class 09
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Developed from the 1944 LMS / EE design, these 0-6-0 diesel electric shunting
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locomotives were built at Darlington and Horwich works from 1959 onwards.
Visually the same as the Class 08 but regeared for use on the Southern Region.
Class 09 - 09025 (4113) in green livery at Canada Street. A Class 09 had always seemed a bit too limited
in its operating area to model - after my spotting days when they were all at southern sheds. But
a bit of research found that originally the type had also been scattered across several sheds much
further north. The last two of these were still in Liverpool when TOPS re-numbered in 1974, before
making their way south to Eastleigh, via a brief spell working off Bristol Bath Road during the
mid-70s. Better yet, the pair were still green when renumbered, and lacked the high-level air pipes
of the long-time SR examples.
