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Best wishes to all for the holiday season and 2026!

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I don't know what that is or where it is but I like it!

NMlurker Wrote:
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> I don't know what that is or where it is but I
> like it!

I'm glad you do! It's an old English Electric class 20, a single cab B-B loco with 1000hp. Over 200 were built back in the late 1960s, this one is one of three that operate at the Hope Valley cement plant in Derbyshire (the UK's largest cement plant). Photo taken last winter. The plant is powered by coal, which arrives by rail on the main network, then these class 20s shuttle it the mile or so from the yard up to the plant



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