Diesel 10000 - To be resurrected/rebuilt

[richieb1971]

http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/ne...motive-to-be-restored-in-derbyshire-1-8102739

Groundbreaking plans to bring the country’s first-ever mainline diesel locomotive back to life will be unveiled in Derbyshire this weekend.

The ambitious project to reconstruct the LMS 10000 - which was originally built at nearby Derby Works by London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) just after World War Two - will be revealed at Peak Rail tomorrow (Saturday).

Every one of the art deco-style loco, which were originally designed by H. G. Ivatt and renowned for their cutting-edge technology, were lost in the 1960s.

Only in recent decades has the rail preservation movement realised the magnitude of what had been lost.

Now Stafford-based Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society has teamed up with Peak Rail and key survivors that built the original engine, to reconstruct one of the locos and bring it back into public use....

 

[D6975]

Old news, but I'm not surprised you didn't notice it, it's in the class 58 preservation thread. (58022 is being scavenged for parts, including frames)

 

[randyrippley]

Are we supposed to assume from this that the class 58 frame is actually based on a design from the 1950's?
and then people wonder why the 58 was never sold overseas?