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Ashover on S&T duty in Minffordd Yard in March 1982
Ashover on S&T duty in Minffordd Yard in March 1982

Ashover is a 50hp F.C. Hibberd “Planet″ 4wDM (4-wheeled Diesel Mechanical) locomotive (Builder′s number 3307 of 1948). It was originally supplied to the Ashover Light Railway which transports minerals from Ashover to Clay Cross in Derbyshire. It did not carry a name at that time. Ashover came to the FR in October 1981 from the East Anglian Transport Museum Society, Carlton Colville, Suffolk. Ashover was commonly used as Boston Lodge works shunter, occasionally being used on Parks and Gardens works trains. It is currently out of service having suffered from a lack of attention to routine maintenance checks whilst it was away from Boston Lodge.

As of November 2012 it is at the National Railway Museum, York, for overhaul. (more...)

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