26034/D5334
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Entered
service 17/07/59
Renumbered 27/07/74
Last
overhaul 10/85 G and HGR; including fitting
air-brakes and removing boiler and boiler water tanks
Withdrawn 17/09/89
Depots
64B
(Haymarket) 04/59 (new)
34B
(Hornsey) 07/59 (loan)
64H
(Leith Central) 08/59
64B
(Haymarket) 10/59
60A (Inverness) 07/60
HA (Haymarket) 11/85
ED (Eastfield) 16/05/87
Withdrawn 17/09/89
Sectors
04/87 FXX
10/87 FGWS
01/88 FXXB
02/88 FGWS
02/89 FGSE
09/89 FGZX
FXX
Freight/General
FGWS Speedlink/Eastfield
FXXB Speedlink/General
FGSE Speedlink/Eastfield
FGZX Withdrawn
Notes
OMO
fitted 03/86
First Railfreight-liveried 26 to be withdrawn
One of the IS 26s not to have headlights
26/05/76: one of the few Class 26s to have worked passenger to Mallaig!
Liveries
Original green; green plus small yellow warning panel; BR blue; Railfreight
(08/85)
Storage
and disposal
Withdrawn with collision damage. Cut
MC Metals 03/09/90.
Last
years
(26034 was by far the rarest member of the class
on passenger work after refurbishment)
17/06/86
26034+20126
0730 Penzance to Aberdeen; Carstairs to Waverley.
06/08/86
2Y34 2156 Dundee to Perth.
07/09/87
1L37 1555 Glasgow to Arbroath; it was seen leaving Dundee, but there is
no definite gen on where it worked from. It may have been Glasgow... Then
2Y02 1924 Arbroath to Dundee.
26/09/88
26014 or 26034
1M03 1313 Glasgow to Carlisle; Glasgow to Kilmarnock, where it failed
and replaced by 47303.
28/11/88
2O72 1714 Queen Street to Waverley; Queen Street to Lenzie where 034 expired
and the train was caped.
Saturday 24/06/89
1T10 0710 Aberdeen to Queen Street; from Perth to Queen Street after 47702
expired. 034 came off the ballast and reached Queen Street only 24 minutes
down on its last passenger working.
Monday 11/09/89
26034 was withdrawn at 1300hrs. It had collided with a cement train at
Carlisle some three weeks earlier.