26008/D5308
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Entered
service 12/12/58
Renumbered 25/07/74
Last
overhaul 01/86 G and HGR; including fitting
air-brakes and removing boiler water tanks
Withdrawn 12/03/92
Depots
34B (Hornsey) 28/11/58 (new)
34G (Finsbury Park) 04/60
64B (Haymarket) 05/60 (loan)
64B
(Haymarket) 06/60
IS (Inverness) 25/10/75
HA (Haymarket) 07/10/78
IS 01/85
HA 03/85
ED (Eastfield) 16/05/87
IS 23/08/92
Withdrawn 12/03/
Sectors
04/87 FXX
10/87 FGWS
01/88 FXXB
02/88 FGWS
05/88 FEGB
01/89 FEPE
05/90 DCHA
03/92 RAJE
03/93 RFJX
FXX
Freight/General
FGWS Speedlink/Eastfield
FXXB Speedlink/General
FEGB Coal/Haymarket
FEPE Coal/Haymarket
DCHA ScotRail Departmental Civil Engineer
RAJE Regional/Infrastructure 26 IS
RFJX
Regional/Stored/Withdrawn
Notes
OMO
fitted 02/86. 26008 was the only non slow-speed-fitted 26 to carry two-tone
grey coal livery
Liveries
Original green; green plus small yellow warning panel; BR blue; Railfreight
grey (01/86); Railfreight two tone grey (coal subsector) (11/88)
Storage
and disposal
Withdrawn after collision damage. Cut
MC Metals 07/94. Bogies and power unit apparently sold.
Last
years
17/08/88
26008 was out dragging units from Cowdenbeath; its first passenger
workings for three years.
18/08/88
1J29 1718 Waverley to Dundee. 008 came light from Eastfield to work this
train; the stock was a shove set.
15/09/88
1135 Waverley to Inverness; from Waverley to Perth after 47017 was removed
at Edinburgh. 47003 went forward.
22/09/88
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
23/09/88
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
31/01/89
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley. Despite a 60mph limit, 008 managed 80
down the hill...
08/05/89
1B34 Aberdeen to Waverley; taking load 10 from Dundee to Waverley after
the Duff expired.
Monday 04/03/91
0954 1B08 Carstairs to Waverley. 47474 piloted the 26 into Waverley, and
both engines were working.
Thursday 01/08/91
0607 2G11 Waverley to Waverley via Cardenden; Cardenden to Waverley. 26008
came off Thornton after 47114 had lost power.
Tuesday 13/08/91
0607 2G11 Waverley to Waverley; Cowdenbeath to Waverley. 26008 rushes
in when 47973 blows for 008's final passenger work on a service train.
Sunday
16/02/92
26008 works the first passenger turn of the year, albeit a tour and albeit
not for very far... A4 Class 60009 'Union of South Africa' was booked
to work an InterCity charter from Glasgow Queen Street to Waverley to
commemorate 150 years of the line. Since kettles are banned from charging
up Cowlairs bank owing to their tunnel-lining destroying tendencies, 26008
was used to pilot to Eastfield shed.
Monday 24/02/92
26008 runs light from Perth to Inverness for crew training duties for
fitters and drivers, as fewer than half of Inverness drivers were by then
familiar with the class. Two days after its arrival, 008 failed with electrical
problems serious enough for 008 to have to be dragged back to Eastfield
for attention to its main generator! It was placed inside 37405 on the
6B70 1820 Inverness to Millerhill via Grangemouth on 02/03/92 and finally
arrived at Eastfield the next morning (the loco was returned to traffic
on 09/03/92.)
Thursday 28/05/92
26008+26003 work to Aberdeen on a ballast from Perth Yard.
Sunday 31/05/92
26008 worked 5Z20 1730 Perth to Inverness. This coal-liveried machine
was used by control to take a defective coach back to ScotRail's coaching
resource centre at Inverness. Since 26002 was in need of an A exam, it
was also dragged to Inverness in the consist by 008. Both locos returned
to Perth separately; 008 coming back light later that Sunday and 002 returning
on Monday.
Wednesday 29/07/92
26008 is towed to Inverness by 37408 on 6H33 2350 Millerhill to Inverness
freight, after being stuck at Eastfield for several weeks with traction
motor problems. A reconditioned traction motor arrived at Inverness eventually
from RFS Doncaster, but, during fitting, it was discovered that brushes
were missing and the casing had been damaged at Doncaster, so 008 remained
on shed for longer than planned...
Thursday 25/02/93
26008 worked its last train. It had arrived in Ayr on 23/01, and worked
various ballast duties. While on AR08, it was running light to a site
near Girvan to uplift a crane. Unfortunately it collided with the crane
and this knocked both buffers off and bent the frame. 26001 was sent from
Ayr to drag 008 to Girvan for inspection. It was then hauled subsequently
to Ayr on 03/03 and Motherwell the next day. Official withdrawal came
on 12/03/93 at 1600hrs.