Class 58 - Trainload Coal - 58042 - DCC Sound Fitted Accessory Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal

Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal

circa 1960s

Designed specifically for the Accurascale Class GWR 57xx/67xx/8750 locomotives

Route: 202 Fettercairn

with three Steel Coil loads on each:

Class 58 - Trainload Coal - 58042 - DCC Sound Fitted Accessory Birchalls burned ‘slack’ coal58042 was handed over to traffic during May 1986. Like other class members, it carried the Railfreight Red Stripe livery from new. A typical second batch Class 58, it ran with CP3A bogies and a wider silencer. It was named Ironbridge Power Station in September 1986 after the power station located in Shropshire, and it also carried cast Railfreight plaques on the cab fronts. Repainted into Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding in 1991, it