A rare event occurred on the 14th January 1972 when D1011 Western Thunderer appeared on a special freight and took it's train into Bloxwich Spelter, almost certainly the one and only time a diesel hydraulic had worked into the spelter sidings.
The loco was later seen by a colleague running light through Walsall on her way back to the W.R., the driver was evidently in a hurry and left the station in a great cloud of exhaust smoke...
No photo's were obtained of the Bloxwich trip but i've enclosed a photo of D1011 taken two years later on the Western Region. The loco ran with a narrow dent along the bodyside for a number of years, it can be seen below the nameplate here.
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