Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 Livery_Railfreight Red/Grey with blue doors/cycle graphic

with blue doors/cycle graphic

The design differed on each side and end: one side depicted Beck’s original 1933 Tube map (with the corresponding No

it received its nameplates from new

Resurrected at Barrow Hill it returned to the main line in November 2022 in an extraordinary shade of 'tango' orange that originally debuted on his former Class 20/3 machines in 2012

Nose connecting doors

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 Livery_Railfreight Red/Grey with blue doors/cycle graphicEntering service in December 1984, 58023 was a typical mid batch locomotive. Most reliability modifications had been undertaken, but not the more drastic changes seen on the second batch. Outshopped in Red Stripe livery, it worked for a couple of years before being displayed at the Welbeck Colliery open day on 25th June 1989 in ex works Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding. A locomotive that spent a good few years unnamed, it worked like this