[dwb]

Still with two and half years of service life left, 48773 is seen here at Bridgenorth in June 2006

You can read the full story on the BBC via this link.

David

 

[poliss]

I'm sure it will be restored eventually.

 

[Noggins Friend]

It seems that more and more locos are being stored because no boiler certificate. I think this old friend would run for ever

 

[7113]

Unfortunately boiler overhauls are expensive and money has to be raised by the owning group. You also have to remember that if she is going through the SVR shops she will have to join the queue.

As an aside ther are a couple of errors in the BBC article.

Regards

 

[zedbob]

QUOTE (BRITHO @ 14 Jan 2008, 13:44) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Unfortunately boiler overhauls are expensive and money has to be raised by the owning group. You also have to remember that if she is going through the SVR shops she will have to join the queue.

As an aside ther are a couple of errors in the BBC article.

Regards

Come on the Mr Britho tell us what the errors were?

My (uneducated and highly speculative) guess is that it wasn't ordered by the MoD and didn't end up in Iran, it was ordered by the Agricultural commission to plough fields in France and ended up in Iraq, and was rumored to be fitted with Water Melting Devices (WMD's) but after lengthy investigations this was proved incorrect.

 

[dwb]

QUOTE My (uneducated and highly speculative) guess is that it wasn't ordered by the MoD and didn't end up in Iran,

This plaque is attached to the side of the locomotive

David