Image D6836, shunting, Leicester station

D6836, shunting, Leicester station
D6836, shunting, Leicester station 
 With its reproduction green paint scheme now looking somewhat faded D6836 makes a number of shunting moves in and out of UKRL's Leicester depot. Released into traffic in April 1963 this member of the class operated all over the country being based variously at York, Landore, Hull Dairycoates, Healey Mills and Tinsley. When numbered 37905 it also carried the name 'Vulcan Enterprise' for ten years from 1987 until 1997. It was withdrawn in 2005 being rescued from the breakers to enter preservation on the Battlefield Line finally being reinstated in 2011. 
 Keywords: D6836 shunting Leicester station
D6836, shunting, Leicester station 
 With its reproduction green paint scheme now looking somewhat faded D6836 makes a number of shunting moves in and out of UKRL's Leicester depot. Released into traffic in April 1963 this member of the class operated all over the country being based variously at York, Landore, Hull Dairycoates, Healey Mills and Tinsley. When numbered 37905 it also carried the name 'Vulcan Enterprise' for ten years from 1987 until 1997. It was withdrawn in 2005 being rescued from the breakers to enter preservation on the Battlefield Line finally being reinstated in 2011. 
 Keywords: D6836 shunting Leicester station

With its reproduction green paint scheme now looking somewhat faded

D6836 makes a number of shunting moves in and out of UKRL's Leicester depot. Released into traffic in April 1963 this member of the class operated all over the country being based variously at York, Landore, Hull Dairycoates, Healey Mills and Tinsley. When numbered 37905 it also carried the name 'Vulcan Enterprise' for ten years from 1987 until 1997. It was withdrawn in 2005 being rescued from the breakers to enter preservation on the Battlefield Line finally being reinstated in 2011.