Class 50 - BR Blue Pre-refurbishment - 50035 'Ark Royal' - DCC Sound Coach Type_Siphon G still carrying early “Brush” blue

still carrying early “Brush” blue paint

which became a QXA brake force runner for the Civil Engineer’s Mobile Track Assessment fleet in early 1987 and usually operated with DB 977339

In total 13 locomotives were bought by LT although only 11 ever ran at once

the locomotive was laid up at Heaton depot and was finally scrapped in 1970

Class 50 - BR Blue Pre-refurbishment - 50035 'Ark Royal' - DCC Sound Coach Type_Siphon G still carrying early “Brush” blueIllustrating the breadth of the Accurascale Class 50 tooling suite is 50035, one of three members of the fleet to gain plated headcode panels during 1977 8 with sealed beam marker lights along with Nos. 50003 and 50007, the latter at the No. 1 end only. In January 1978 the ten year old locomotive become the first of the newly minted Warship class to be honoured with nameplates following the easing of the ridiculous embargo on new namings. The Laira