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‘It is remarkable how some locos ‘slipped through the netting’

and missed being repainted for many years. Idling away a few minutes in one of the many short, almost hidden, bay platforms at Crewe is a 350hp BR-built Class 08 shunter still in virtually original condition in 1973, in green livery with the 1950s British Railways lion and wheel insignia so it has even missed out on receiving its BR Heraldic device. and its original number D3291. The wasp striped cab-ends are more modern additions however. It finally became rail-blue in January 1974 and was renumbered 08221 on being transferred to Bletchley.