Class 33, 33202
Crompton Class 33 locomotive 33202 in the foreground with 33046 at the rear runs round its train at Yeovil Junction after deputising for 34027 'Taw Valley' which had failed on the Bert Hooker Memorial Express railtour from London Waterloo on October 12th 1996. The train was hauled back to London and terminated at Clapham Junction at 2am, some 4 hours late.
33202 entered service in February 1962 as D6587 and withdrawn from the mainline in early 2009 and now resides in preservation at Mangapps Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch in Essex.
Photograph scanned from David's archives and posted here with kind permission.
Class 33, 33202
Crompton Class 33 locomotive 33202 in the foreground with 33046 at the rear runs round its train at Yeovil Junction after deputising for 34027 'Taw Valley' which had failed on the Bert Hooker Memorial Express railtour from London Waterloo on October 12th 1996. The train was hauled back to London and terminated at Clapham Junction at 2am, some 4 hours late.
33202 entered service in February 1962 as D6587 and withdrawn from the mainline in early 2009 and now resides in preservation at Mangapps Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch in Essex.
Photograph scanned from David's archives and posted here with kind permission.