EWS's Component Recovery & Distribution Centre at Wigan has become the final resting place for many redundant locomotives. All locomotives that arrive here are destined for stripping of all reusable components, many of which are now obsolete and are costly and/or hard to obtain. These components are then distributed around to be reused on other sevicable examples in order to keep them going. In this view 47016 'ATLAS', which arrived here on 11th December 1998, waiting it's fate at Wigin CR&DC on 14th August 1999.

Photo and Scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk)
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