8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted Freight Type_Van 66793 comes under the broad

66793 comes under the broad umbrella of what is known to British railway enthusiasts as a “euro class 66”

In the late 1970s some remaining Siphon Gs were transferred into Departmental traffic

allowing operation over a minimum radius of 371mm (1st radius set-track)

Stored at Throckmorton Airfield

DCC decoder socket in tender (tender roof accessible by lift out section secured by magnets)

8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted Freight Type_Van 66793 comes under the broad9681. British Railways Black Livery, Late Crest 9681 was one of the last pannier tanks to be built. Emerging from Swindon Works in 1949 under the ownership of British Railways it was part of the penultimate lot of 10 locomotives. Initially allocated to Tondu in South Wales, it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life. Luckily it was bought by scrap merchant Dai Woodham and spent