412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_British Steel BR blue with grey grilles

BR blue with grey grilles and additional pre-TOPS number (D9000)

* 26mm axle length

the loco exhibits a different configuration of features compared to former colleague 37405

31233 still active for NR

It worked here until it was purchased by the Severn Valley Railway in 1973

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_British Steel BR blue with grey grillesRuston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the