BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 Livery_GMPTE Penzance-St Erth-St Ives

Penzance-St Erth-St Ives

as well as other special services and relief trains

With Corás Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) rolling out a series of freight stock throughout the 1950s-1960s based on a standardised triangulated underframe developed by its then-Chief Mechanical Engineer

The solebar and Mansell wheel centres also received the painted teak finish

ETH cabling and sockets

BR Class 08/9 - BR Railfreight Grey - 08994 Livery_GMPTE Penzance-St Erth-St IvesEnglish 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