Class 50 - Large Logo w/grey roof - 50046 'Ajax' - DCC Sound Subclass_30 D9013 – ‘The Black Watch’

D9013 – ‘The Black Watch’

painted on the smokebox door

The locomotive has also been fitted with a small Wi-Fi pod above the No

55018 – ‘Ballymoss’

the increasingly unreliable Hunslets—despite sharing an engine and many mechanical and electrical components with the BR Class 20s—were replaced in 1980 with General Motors 111 Class locomotives

Class 50 - Large Logo w/grey roof - 50046 'Ajax' - DCC Sound Subclass_30 D9013 – ‘The Black Watch’The mighty Ajax, the son of Telamon, second only to Achilles in the Greek warrior hierarchy, equal of Trojan champion Hector and also the most famous Class 50 that got away, being scrapped at MC Metals, Glasgow, in June 1992. It had donated its low hours power unit to 50007 in December 1991, around five weeks after working its last train, after Sir Edward Elgar had been sidelined with a main generator flashover near Basingstoke in July of the same