Image 09204, stabled, Crewe South
09204, stabled, Crewe South
09204, stabled, Crewe South Undertaking some shunting duties to the south of Crewe, 09204 sits attached to a line of Polish built IOA bogie box wagons. There is a general misunderstanding in the railway fraternity that the Class 09s are a more powerful version of the Class 08 shunters. They are in fact identical having the same 350hp English Electric 6KT engine with the only difference being slightly higher gearing. This means that they can reach the dizzy heights of twenty-seven and a half miles per hour! However, it does reduce their maximum tractive effort slightly. Whilst some Class 09s were converted from 08s, this example was one of the original twenty-six constructed at Horwich works entering service in December 1961 as D4112. Apart from being stored for a year between 2011 and 2012, it has been in continual service since its introduction; quite some testament to the design! Keywords: 09204 Crewe South Gronk shunter
09204, stabled, Crewe South Undertaking some shunting duties to the south of Crewe, 09204 sits attached to a line of Polish built IOA bogie box wagons. There is a general misunderstanding in the railway fraternity that the Class 09s are a more powerful version of the Class 08 shunters. They are in fact identical having the same 350hp English Electric 6KT engine with the only difference being slightly higher gearing. This means that they can reach the dizzy heights of twenty-seven and a half miles per hour! However, it does reduce their maximum tractive effort slightly. Whilst some Class 09s were converted from 08s, this example was one of the original twenty-six constructed at Horwich works entering service in December 1961 as D4112. Apart from being stored for a year between 2011 and 2012, it has been in continual service since its introduction; quite some testament to the design! Keywords: 09204 Crewe South Gronk shunter


Undertaking some shunting duties to the south of Crewe, 09204

sits attached to a line of Polish built IOA bogie box wagons. There is a general misunderstanding in the railway fraternity that the Class 09s are a more powerful version of the Class 08 shunters. They are in fact identical having the same 350hp English Electric 6KT engine with the only difference being slightly higher gearing. This means that they can reach the dizzy heights of twenty-seven and a half miles per hour! However, it does reduce their maximum tractive effort slightly. Whilst some Class 09s were converted from 08s, this example was one of the original twenty-six constructed at Horwich works entering service in December 1961 as D4112. Apart from being stored for a year between 2011 and 2012, it has been in continual service since its introduction; quite some testament to the design!