With the subject just missing out on the full sun that the second Mk. I is enjoying 03066 brings one of Barrow Hill's shuttle trains back to the end of the line. 03066 was built at Doncaster in 1959 and spent the first nine years of its life allocated to York (North). It then spent the next twenty years further north allocated to Gateshead and would often have been seen crossing the Tyne bridges and bumbling about the platforms of Central station. It was withdrawn in 1988 but was one of the lucky sixty-six to be saved for preservation out of a total class number of two hundred and thirty.
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