67A Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Hi all, Can anyone shed any light on this. When the class 08 shunter was introduced they had ladders fitted to each side of the radiator section at the front, at some point due to electrification safety issues these were no longer fitted from new and originally fitted loco's subsequently lost them. Has anyone any idea when this change took place? I ask as I have a Bachmann 08 (D4192) the last of the class which is fitted with ladders, I intend to renumber and weather the model to a North West area allocated member and remove the ladders. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDuty Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 With the arrival of the Dapol 7mm 08s, I have the same question... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 All class 08 shunters were built with the bonnet ladders. It quickly became apparent that this could cause issues in areas with OHLW so they were slowly removed, in a rather haphazard way at first. Locos that would be working under the wires lost them during the early 60's, but some areas, especially the Western seemed reluctant to remove them in a hurry, the farther away from the wires, the less urgency to get rid of them. The Western allocated locos seemed to retain their ladders into the 1970's in a lot of cases, especially those in West Wales and the West Country. I have photographic evidence that 08898 of Landore even managed to keep its ladders with TOPS numbers in late 1974. The only way to know if your loco carried ladders or not at any particular time is to find a photo of it. Not the easiest thing to do with such a large class of locos. Paul J. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDuty Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Thank you! I will start searching for photos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
67A Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Hi all, Not bad eh! Only 5 years to get a reply, the power of the web eh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yooski Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 But did you ever weather the loco? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david ellis Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 4128, later 08898 in 1970 with its ladder https://www.flickr.com/photos/68861278@N03/14786921808/in/photolist-owEQFJ-63qypG-h2DAvu-9myjhy-kG85GV-kG85pF-auF7jU-jCpfiP-aWEjNe-dEaBo3-fzVfh1-AXNjWj Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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