408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue Wagon Type_Coil-A KAV 359 came from an earlier

359 came from an earlier batch of ten locomotives built at Stratford in 1892 and was rebuilt in 1904 into the R24r Class

for Stella North/South Dunston/Blyth Power Stations

Caledonian Sleeper

Smokebox and chimney correctly represents as-built GWR condition or post-1952 BR redraughting

408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue Wagon Type_Coil-A KAV 359 came from an earlierRuston 408493 was built new for British Railways Western Region, for use at the Signalling & Telecommunications Department workshops at Reading and was delivered on 19 January 1957. Taking the Departmental number 20, the locomotive spent its entire lifetime at Reading, housed under the Vastern Road bridge when not in use. Renumbered in 1973 under TOPS, to 97020, withdrawal came in April 1981 and the shunter was disposed of at Reading by Cartrights of