BR Class 08 - BR Blue - 08910 24.5t HOP24/HUO Coal Hopper - O Gauge Wagons are 166mm over buffers

Wagons are 166mm over buffers in length

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This saw it given a crest above the nameplate on each side – notably in BR service it had only worn a single example

Rotating axlebox hubs (with alternate axlebox covers for earlier versions)

BR Class 08 - BR Blue - 08910 24.5t HOP24/HUO Coal Hopper - O Gauge Wagons are 166mm over buffersEnglish Electrics 1934 diesel electric shunter No. 7079 for the LMS proved highly successful and led to further orders across all the Big Four railways. Its lineage fed directly into British Railways push, after 1948 nationalisation, to create a standardised large shunting locomotive. Drawing heavily on the LMS 350 hp design but incorporating improvements and flexibility for different engines and electrical equipment, the resulting BR standard 0 6 0