8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted ICI Plated window one side

Plated window one side

Gearing arranged for accurate top speed

they were removed after just four months and the locomotive was renamed Eisteddfod Genedlaethol – after the famous festival – in the August

brake/steam heat pipes

Centre headcode nose with plated headcode box

8750 Class - 9681 - Late Crest Black - DCC Sound Fitted ICI Plated window one side9681. British Railways Black Livery, Late Crest 9681 was one of the last pannier tanks to be built. Emerging from Swindon Works in 1949 under the ownership of British Railways it was part of the penultimate lot of 10 locomotives. Initially allocated to Tondu in South Wales, it spent periods at Oswestry and Hereford before being withdrawn from Cardiff East Dock after a 16 year working life. Luckily it was bought by scrap merchant Dai Woodham and spent