8750 Class - 9741 - British Railways Green Livery_Touax Built at Stratford

Built at Stratford

Split spoke

DRS had plenty of employment for its expanding fleet of heritage liveried Class 37/4s

it lost its Hercules name in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer Sir Edward Elgar – who had no connection with Brunel’s famous railway

8750 Class - 9741 - British Railways Green Livery_Touax Built at Stratford9741. British Railways Green Livery With the introduction of what became the 8750 variations, this 1935 built locomotive emerged from Swindon works carrying a new enlarged cab but still retained some of the earlier style parts such as water fillers and backplate feed. Its initial allocation was Stafford Road shed (Wolverhampton) and can be seen here as it was outshopped in the early British Railways livery lettered livery with GWR "Egyptian" typeface.