Railway Herald
Type 3 diesel electric No. 6541 in the shed yard at Weymouth MPD on 2nd August 1970. New from the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company in January 1961 and initially allocated to Hither Green (73C), it became Class 33 No. 33023 under TOPS in February 1974. Having been withdrawn and then re-instated during 1993, the loco was withdrawn again in February 1997 but re-instated in January 2002 and acquired by the Harry Needle Railroad Company. The end of the line came during November 2005, when it was cut up by EMC Metals at Kingsbury,
Derek Jones
