BR Class 08 - Freightliner/G&W Orange - 08785 - DCC Sound 92-Run2 Drawing heavily on the LMS

Drawing heavily on the LMS 350 hp design but incorporating improvements and flexibility for different engines and electrical equipment

This locomotive is one of the two 73/9s that started life as a JA 73

Starting life as E6030 also in May 1966

by replacing the existing diesel railcar sets with a locomotive hauled service

BR Class 08 - Freightliner/G&W Orange - 08785 - DCC Sound 92-Run2 Drawing heavily on the LMSEnglish Electrics 1934 diesel electric shunter No. 7079 for the LMS proved highly successful and led to further orders across all the Big Four railways. Its lineage fed directly into British Railways push, after 1948 nationalisation, to create a standardised large shunting locomotive. Drawing heavily on the LMS 350 hp design but incorporating improvements and flexibility for different engines and electrical equipment, the resulting BR standard 0 6 0