412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound FittedRuston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the

Cast (Class 50 style) bogies

Iarnród Éireann Logo and branding

DCC Sound Fitted

footsteps (with tread)

East Anglian passenger moves and railtours before being withdrawn in September 1998

1990-2000's

DRSL 92781

Welded roof with plated boiler exhaust and no cab roof vent

Ex-splitbox nose with plated door and WIPAC light clusters

grab handles

2c fleet was increasingly sidelined with many examples withdrawn or sold abroad

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