Railway Herald
The photograph shows BR Class 33/0 No. 33046, weighing some 77 tonnes, loaded on the trailer of a Reid Freight Services transporter as it is seen travelling west along the A50 dual carriageway near Etwall, Derbyshire towards Uttoxeter on a rather overcast morning of Tuesday 2nd July 2013 while in transit from Nemesis Rail, Burton-on-Trent to the preserved East Lancashire Railway at Bury. This locomotive, built by Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon in 1961 as Type 3 Bo-Bo No. D6564, had been a resident at the Burton rail Depot for many months since arriving from a preserved railway line. It is understood that rather than the locomotive being restored it is to provide spares for the East Lancashire Railways Class 33's and then be scrapped.
John Tuffs
