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Class 09
photograph by Michael Taylor.
N°09025 was originally D4113 and is seen at Brighton
Station on Monday, 18th September 2000 in full Connex livery. The other 09 at
Brighton at the time was in green livery and carried nameplates William
Pearson.
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Originally there were 25 members of the 09 class
allocated to the Southern Region. There were outwardly identical to the class
08 0-6-0 shunters but were capable of speeds up to 27 m.p.h. to allow them to
run branchline goods trains. These engines were built between 1959 & 1962
by British Railways At Darlington & Horwich works. Powered by an English
Electric 400 h.p. 6KT engine.
In 1992 7 members of class 08/0 were converted to class 09/1
with 110 V electrical equipment and 5 with 80 V equipment were converted to
class 09/2. The original class 09 became class 09/0 and many were transferred
away to such diverse locations as Fowey, Doncaster and Sheerness Dockyard.
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This page was last updated 26 January 2003.