Railway Herald
Class 56 No. 56040 Oystermouth at East Suffolk Jct Ipswich running towards the Depot on 15th October 1997. Built at Doncaster Works and added to stock at Toton on 15th February 1978 and withdrawn 29th July 2005 and sold to the Class 56 Group in September 2005 and moved to Dereham on the Mid Norfolk Railway in June 2006. However the 56 required extensive repairs and it was decided in 2011 to sell it for scrap and be replaced by 56301. She was cut up at T.J.Thompson, Stockton in August 2011.
Keith Partlow
