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'Booster' at Brighton..

Bulleid/Raworth Co-Co electric loco (E)20002 at Brighton station, in about 1968, possibly for an 'open day'...

The loco was built in 1945 as SR CC2, and included a flywheel-driven motor generator, to enable the - relatively short - loco to cope with third-rail gaps...

It was withdrawn at the end of 1968, and scrapped in September 1969. None of the class of 3 locos survived, but one of their flywheel/m-g sets still exists..

Restored from a high-contrast unfocussed grainy original..

Original slide - photographer unknown

 

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Uploaded on November 23, 2016
Taken circa 1968