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Old Oak Common Depot, gone but not forgotten.

In connection with support crew duties with A4 60009 Union of South Africa, I spent several days on several occassions at Old Oak Common depot, now but a memory.
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    56133 really does look quite presentable complete with an Immingham 40B shed plate. Most of the class finished up being allocated there.
    EWS hired out many of their redundant type locos for infrastructure trains on the new build high speed lines in France. 58016 and 56118 both went abroad and are wearing the livery of Fertis, the company that hired them.
    Judging by the burn mark on the side of loco, I would guess that 56118 suffered a traction motor fire and that would have caused her final demise.