Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Blue Grey NSE and was a regular performer

and was a regular performer on steel trains into the Midlands into the early EWS era

while the running gear was painted black

then at the Velim test track near Prague in the Czech Republic and

and Tunbridge Wells

Class 58 - Mainline Blue (Preserved) - 58023 - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Blue Grey NSE and was a regular performerEntering service in December 1984, 58023 was a typical mid batch locomotive. Most reliability modifications had been undertaken, but not the more drastic changes seen on the second batch. Outshopped in Red Stripe livery, it worked for a couple of years before being displayed at the Welbeck Colliery open day on 25th June 1989 in ex works Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding. A locomotive that spent a good few years unnamed, it worked like this