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English Electric Type 1 - Class 20 Locomotives

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These Eastwell twins D8001 & D8183 are both Lima models with additional weight, improved electrical pick-ups and Ultrascale replacement wheels.

 

More Eastwell motive power in the form of Stratford allocated English Electric type 1 D8030 (Bachmann) in charge of a mixed freight, and BTH D8225 waiting at the signals in the background.

 

A view of the other side of D8030.

 

D8041 - a detailed and weathered Bachmann Class 20 for Canada Street.

 

8064 & 8151 pass through Shenston Road with a northbound coal working.

 

Another pair of Eastwell's Lima Class 20s 20075 & 20020 with a rake of 21 ton hopper wagons in tow.

 

8077 awaiting the next turn of duty back to the home depot Toton.

 

Meanwhile at Hornsey Broadway, English Electric type 1 numbers 8078 & D8135 are seen with a loaded coal train of 16 ton mineral wagons.

 

A pair of Class 20s haul a coke train in the direction of East London with 8115 in charge. This pairing is by Greg Brookes from his Shenston Road fleet.

 

Class 20 D8124 in a 1960s livery has been finished with a light application of grime. It was a Scottish Region engine during those years, and retained the original GSYP livery right through to the end of the decade.

 

English Electric type 1 number 8145 on the headshunt at Pudsey Junction stabling point.

 

Waiting in the goods loop at Shenston Road (Bachmann)

 

Still paired together, 8145 and D8077 head a rake of loaded 16 ton mineral wagons at Hornsey Broadway.

 

Also from Shenston Road - 20147 and 20132 have been refreshed, captured here for the album.

 

From the Shenston Road fleet, Class 20s at Hornsey Broadway with 8303 leading (Bachmann).

 

English Electric type 1 number 8304, a York allocated Class 20 from the Hornsey Bdy fleet.

 

Bachmann Class 20 driving ends.

 

A line-up of Bachmann class 20 locos at Pudsey Junction Stabling Point, Wibdenshaw.

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