Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Accessory Type_Couplers 1979-2000's

1979-2000's

With a 10ft wheelbase and 12-ton capacity

Custom programmed for accurascale Class 89 locomotives

but that is another story…

* Sprung metal buffers and dummy instanter couplings

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Accessory Type_Couplers 1979-2000'sEntering service in December 1984, 58023 was a typical mid batch locomotive. Most reliability modifications had been undertaken, but not the more drastic changes seen on the second batch. Outshopped in Red Stripe livery, it worked for a couple of years before being displayed at the Welbeck Colliery open day on 25th June 1989 in ex works Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding. A locomotive that spent a good few years unnamed, it worked like this