97_405_Chester_17_05_86

Departmental loco 97 405, formerly 40 060, pauses at Chester with a civil

engineers on Saturday 17th May 1986.

Built by English Electric, it entered service as D260 in February 1960 & was originally withdrawn in January 1985. It was then reinstated in April '85 as one of four class 40's used on engineering trains during remodeling work at Crewe, before being withdrawn a second time in March 1987. It was finally scrapped at Vic Berry's in March 1988, the only one of the four not to survive into preservation.

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