BR Class 08/9 - EWS Maroon - 08993 'Merry Go Round' - MGR Made in Great Britain

Made in Great Britain

Wylam Dilly is the second oldest surviving steam locomotive in the world and was built for hauling coal at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle in 1815

TOPS renumbering saw it become 73125 and then finally 73204 when it became part of the Gatwick express fleet

or installed automatically via the built-in online update function

and these were commonly fitted with the ubiquitous offset gangway

BR Class 08/9 - EWS Maroon - 08993 'Merry Go Round' - MGR Made in Great BritainEnglish 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