ACC2862-DCC Ruston And Hornsby 88DS 408493/1957 British Rail No. 20 BR Rail Blue Diesel Shunter - DCC Sound Fitted Class-68 The Class 89 model will

The Class 89 model will be based on Accurascale’s ground-breaking Class 92 platform

F10 - Guard’s Whistle (When Stationary) / Speed Related Detonators (When Moving)

A total of 137 units were produced in three main subclasses

Only one of these locomotives survived into preservation which is number 2516 and lives happily on display at the Swindon Steam Railway Museum

ACC2862-DCC Ruston And Hornsby 88DS 408493/1957 British Rail No. 20 BR Rail Blue Diesel Shunter - DCC Sound Fitted Class-68 The Class 89 model willRuston 408493 was built new for British Railways Western Region, for use at the Signalling & Telecommunications Department workshops at Reading and was delivered on 19 January 1957. Taking the Departmental number 20, the locomotive spent its entire lifetime at Reading, housed under the Vastern Road bridge when not in use. Renumbered in 1973 under TOPS, to 97020, withdrawal came in April 1981 and the shunter was disposed of at Reading by Cartrights of