8750 Class - 3608 - GWR Green Shirtbutton - DCC Sound Fitted GWR 7800 - Manor Class along with 68649

along with 68649

British Railways Green Livery

The name stuck with the locomotive until withdrawal

the area around South Shields was the centre of the Harton Coal Company’s operations

8750 Class - 3608 - GWR Green Shirtbutton - DCC Sound Fitted GWR 7800 - Manor Class along with 68649Completed at Swindon on the 2nd of Feb 1939 as part of Lot 314, was new to Oxford shed. Another of the type to have the more modern cab fitted as part of the 8750 variant, this had many of the later features you would associate with the type, such as the bunker steps and later type fillers. It was however built before the fitting of top feed and this would be added later. Another engine that would spend most of its life around one shed, it would not