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, 08733, one of the former 08's from the Motherwell scrapline, awaits the inevitable at Wigan CR&DC on Saturday 14th August 1999.

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