08s
 

HA HA ,I have just been looking at the picture of an 08 inthe Gallery...now there is a proper diesel...little "sloggers" they were and indeed still are in some places, I loved them in the diesel world.

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They have been great servant sto BR, the TOCs and Heritage Railways. Most of the survivers are now over 50 years old.

I remember seeing them new a Derby, sometimes before they were in the ABC's!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Good little loco's the railway sure had the money out of them.
Every so often we had to take one to Exeter on a night turn about 80 miles with one a fitter would ride with it and check the bearings every 20 miles that sure was one long night.

ccmmick.

Yes I bet it was mate.
But you know, those little buggers had a atmosphere all of their own, they certainly were or indeed still are a locomotive that will never be forgotten.
One thing about them, if you dropped on a train of wagons to pull them out of the yard or go from one yard to another,and started to move, they had a sound all of their own, brilliant engines in them.
I enjoyed them immensley.

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Had High Speed Shunters down here the old 09's. good for 27 and a half mph
more if you put a paddle over the Overspeed Governer :D

Or so I've heard ( Walks off stage left with hands in pockets and whistling )

they certainly are very influential shunters! i dont really know much about them as i have only operated Sentenial shunters. I remember them very well from my childhood!!!

In the mid 1980's we had lots of 08's at HM. They were used for shunting in the yard, and all the trip shunting around Wakefield and Dewsbury.
One job signed on at 04:45hrs and the dinner time job at 12:35hrs.
As these were trip jobs, you could be going any where from Hebden Bridge at one end to Castleford .
We had one particular job on the MML. was to shunt the coke works out at Royston Junction, and load back to the Mill. This job was known as the Flying Flea.
08's were rough riders and not very warm, but they could pull an house side down.
At the front they had a place for the shunt pole and a step where the shunter could ride on.
We had a job at 55A Holbeck Shed was all the trip workings in the Leeds area.
When you took a 350 through Leeds City Station it was like been on the back of a run away horse.
We also shunted many hours at the FL Depot at Stourton.
Alas again all this has gone

Like you say mate....all gone, but at least you have your memories, like me.

I enjoyed the 08s or as we called them "Dobbins", I often swapped shifts to have a day on shunting jobs, I was never one for "dashing around the system"as I have mentioned before.

Quite happy "plodding" along the slow line or working in the yard with an 08.

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There is a very sorry looking example, 08 948, parked outside the Eurostar depot, at Stratford. Not sure if it is still being used.

08s
 

I have a number of pics of 08s at different places. Will put some on the gallery shortly.