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Old 19th December 2008, 11:22
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Now perhaps you can tell me, class 3s and 4s (and maybe even later classes too) had funnels but class 1s and 2s didn't. Why is that do you know? Why did funnels suddenly come into use on the class 3s?
As far as I know, the class number does NOT relate to the order of introduction, so Class 01 was not the first class of shunter built. [many types of shunter were withdrawn before the class system was introduced in the mid 1960s]
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