DGM 12 Hopper - United Steel Company Grey - Triple Pack
Ahead of the landmark Toton open day in August 1998 there was furious activity behind the scenes at English Welsh & Scottish Railway as the company went hell for leather to show off a more enthusiast-friendly outlook with range of exhibits wearing the Wisconsin Central-inspired maroon and gold paint scheme
250hp Mirrlees Type 2s were not uprated like their ‘production’ colleagues and along with the English Electric Type 1s and Type 4s were among the most reliable of the pilot scheme locomotives
In January 2024 it was repainted into Loram Rail’s house colours of Flame red
this group did not universally receive names
BR Class 92 - Railfreight Grey - 92002 'H. G. Wells' - DCC Sound Subclass_37/4 DGM 12 Hopper - United92002 H. G. Wells Railfreight GreyCompleted by Brush Traction in December 1993 and named after the prolific English writer H. G. Wells, No. 92002 would spend its formative years undergoing testing, initially at the Railway Technical Centre, Derby, then at the Velim test track near Prague in the Czech Republic and, finally, at the Arsenal complex near Vienna in Austria. Repatriated to the UK in time for the Crewe Basford Hall Open Day in August 1995,