Scorched 47 312 with 47 145 Tonbridge West Yard, Kent.
Photo Taken : 05.08.1995.
Fire damaged 47 312 is seen stabled in Tonbridge West Yard coupled to Tinsley Depots pet loco 47 145 named 'Merddin Emrys' and in a hybrid BR Blue/RfD livery.
47 312 had caught fire while working a freight from Wembley Yard in London to Dollands Moor Yard near Folkestone the previous night. Damage was bad enough the loco was removed from the train and shunted into Tonbridge West Yard to await inspection. The locomotive was repaired and returned to service but was something of a pyromaniac machine and caught fire again four years later when owned by EWS. This time the fire damaged sustained at Dollands Moor on 11.02.1999 proved terminal and it was effectively withdrawn on 26.02.1999 but shown on official records as stored unserviceable. It's home depot since March 1998 had been Bescot but it was towed from Dollands Moor to Crewe DMD, after a period at the diesel depot it moved to the scrap lines at Crewe Horse Landing Sidings. It's death warrant was signed in August 2000 when it was asigned for component recovery at Wigan CRDC. The move to Wigan was made the following year being towed north on the 12.07.2001. Once at Wigan the loco was comprehensively stripped to a bare shell devoid of bogies, engine and roof within a month. After a year as a rotting carcass in the yard it went back inside the stripping shops on 05.09.2002 mounted on a bogie bolster wagon for the last rites only to be pushed back outside again a few weeks later still in the same derelict condition. The final move inside for breaking up came on 26.02.2003 when it was dismantled over the following month. The final ignominy was one remaining cab being dumped inside a skip outside the component recovery depot like a headless corpse. RIP 47 312 > 11.12.1964 to 05.04.2003.
Scorched 47 312 with 47 145 Tonbridge West Yard, Kent.
Photo Taken : 05.08.1995.
Fire damaged 47 312 is seen stabled in Tonbridge West Yard coupled to Tinsley Depots pet loco 47 145 named 'Merddin Emrys' and in a hybrid BR Blue/RfD livery.
47 312 had caught fire while working a freight from Wembley Yard in London to Dollands Moor Yard near Folkestone the previous night. Damage was bad enough the loco was removed from the train and shunted into Tonbridge West Yard to await inspection. The locomotive was repaired and returned to service but was something of a pyromaniac machine and caught fire again four years later when owned by EWS. This time the fire damaged sustained at Dollands Moor on 11.02.1999 proved terminal and it was effectively withdrawn on 26.02.1999 but shown on official records as stored unserviceable. It's home depot since March 1998 had been Bescot but it was towed from Dollands Moor to Crewe DMD, after a period at the diesel depot it moved to the scrap lines at Crewe Horse Landing Sidings. It's death warrant was signed in August 2000 when it was asigned for component recovery at Wigan CRDC. The move to Wigan was made the following year being towed north on the 12.07.2001. Once at Wigan the loco was comprehensively stripped to a bare shell devoid of bogies, engine and roof within a month. After a year as a rotting carcass in the yard it went back inside the stripping shops on 05.09.2002 mounted on a bogie bolster wagon for the last rites only to be pushed back outside again a few weeks later still in the same derelict condition. The final move inside for breaking up came on 26.02.2003 when it was dismantled over the following month. The final ignominy was one remaining cab being dumped inside a skip outside the component recovery depot like a headless corpse. RIP 47 312 > 11.12.1964 to 05.04.2003.