408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue Black Friday Wipers Fitted : Four

Wipers Fitted : Four

in honour of the former Rowntree’s York employee

BR green with double arrow logos and wrap-around yellow nose panels

Hall sensor for flange squeal effect (on DCC Sound-fitted models only)

externally almost unchanged from its previous condition

408493/1957 - British Rail No. 20 - BR Rail Blue Black Friday Wipers Fitted : FourRuston 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