60006 Scunthorpe Ironmaster is seen away from its normal duties on 26.04.00, heading for Sutton Park at Walsall on the 6V70 Cliffe Vale to St Blazey china clay empties. I thought this blue livery was much nicer than the silver garb they gained later on.
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Absolutely superb - you know I need that blue beast !!
Originally named "Great Gable" (as was Peak loco number D4), 60006 was apparently the first of it's class to actually haul a train, 18 years ago in Feb 1990 when it headed a Foster Yeomans stone service.
On the 2nd October 2004 it caught fire while in charge of a ballast train at Appleby on the Settle & Carlisle line and was removed to Toton where it has languished ever since.
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