8750 Class - 3608 - GWR Green Shirtbutton - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Railfreight Grey Working closely with DCR

Working closely with DCR

It was quickly moved to Doncaster Works where it was cut up five months later

Narrow hornplates

This became restricted to weekend work from 1992 along with several periods of store and around three years later it worked for the last time

Like most of its EWS-owned colleagues it was rarely used to its full capabilities and its first decade of action was regularly interrupted by periods of store

8750 Class - 3608 - GWR Green Shirtbutton - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Railfreight Grey Working closely with DCRCompleted at Swindon on the 2nd of Feb 1939 as part of Lot 314, was new to Oxford shed. Another of the type to have the more modern cab fitted as part of the 8750 variant, this had many of the later features you would associate with the type, such as the bunker steps and later type fillers. It was however built before the fitting of top feed and this would be added later. Another engine that would spend most of its life around one shed, it would not