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 of 47572 which had arrived here on 30th June 1999, shows that this locomotive has had most major compontents removed and one side of the bodyshell cut away by the time this picture was shot on 14th August 1999.

Photo and Scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk)
Website: http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/aos/photography