Mistaken Identity?
Carrying the running numbers on one side of long-departed sister locos, The Fifty Fund's Class 50s 50 007 "Hercules" (leading) and 50 049 "Defiance" (nearest the camera) masquerade as 50 006 "Neptune" and 50 011 "Centurion".
The locos prepare to depart Crewe with 1Z44 - the final leg of the GB Railfreight "Out of the Ordinary" charity railtour to Paddington. 50007 (or 50006?) and 50049 (or 50011?!) worked the train via Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and Banbury to Hanwell Loop, where the two 73/1s on the rear completed the fourth and final day of the tour with the draw-back into Paddington.
Mistaken Identity?
Carrying the running numbers on one side of long-departed sister locos, The Fifty Fund's Class 50s 50 007 "Hercules" (leading) and 50 049 "Defiance" (nearest the camera) masquerade as 50 006 "Neptune" and 50 011 "Centurion".
The locos prepare to depart Crewe with 1Z44 - the final leg of the GB Railfreight "Out of the Ordinary" charity railtour to Paddington. 50007 (or 50006?) and 50049 (or 50011?!) worked the train via Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and Banbury to Hanwell Loop, where the two 73/1s on the rear completed the fourth and final day of the tour with the draw-back into Paddington.