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Good choice for one of your favourite classes Dbtc.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that the class was jinxed though. In numerical terms they were the largest class of diesels (main line locomotives), and they were used over the whole country on a huge variety of different trains. So I suppose that whenever an accident was 'waiting to happen' there was a good chance that a Brush 4 would be the unfortunate locomotive.
I don't know of a similar site to the Class 47 site, but I bought 'Traction' today. There is a good article and some previously unpublished pictures of the derailment of 50041 'Bulwark' at Paddington in 1983. Well worth a read.
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That's Feargal, the station cat!
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