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The Nene Valley Railway
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Diesel Gala 2006
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( page 1 of 3 on this Gala in 2006 )
Class 27 066 + Class 56 057 + D306
Class 27 006 at the October 2006 Diesel Gala
Class 27 066 light engine at Wansford station on the Nene Valley railway on the 7th October 2006.
This locomotive started with the number D5386. Then under Tops it was renumbered as 27066. It then had two more numbers Class 27103 and Class 27212.
This locomotive is based at the Dean Forest Railway. There are about 8 class 27s perserved in the UK out of the 69 built by The Birmingham Railway and Carrige Company between1961 and 1962.
For the Edinburgh to Glasgow push-pull operations from 1971 till they were replaced class 27s were used in the top and tail mode, with 6 Mark 2 carriages fitted with air operated disc brakes. A Class 27/1 was at one end of the train and a Class 27/2 at the other.
Eight examples of class 27s have been preserved
Class 27 in Wansford station in 2006
Class 56 057 named British Fuels was in Wansford station in BR blue with large BR arrows and numbers on the 7th October 2006 on the Nene Valley Railway
This class 56 is not now at the Nene Valley.It was at the NVR between 2004 and 2007.It then left and went back onto the UK mainlines
D306 in the bay at Wansford station between trains.
This Class 40 left the Nene Valley in May 2011 and went to Washwood Heath.
Page updated 3/1/2020
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