8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black Livery_BR Carmine Red new to Stratford in March

new to Stratford in March 1959 and withdrawn from Bescot in May 1997

Latterly embellished by DRS staff with tiny BR double arrows

Following unloading and acceptance it worked its first train of HYA’s on the 13th November

83mm) wheels

Cab side windows

8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black Livery_BR Carmine Red new to Stratford in March9681. 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 Initially allocated to Tondu in South Wales, it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life.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