Pre-Owned R3897 Ruston & Hornsby 88DS 0-4-0 No. 20 BR Blue Diesel Shunter Wheels The entire fleet was inherited

The entire fleet was inherited by British Railways upon Nationalisation in 1948

Based on a must-have diesel servicing structure

whose ploughing services are advertised on the side of the wagon

These mighty ships not only transported valuable goods between the continents

alternative buffer beams and brake hoses)

Pre-Owned R3897 Ruston & Hornsby 88DS 0-4-0 No. 20 BR Blue Diesel Shunter Wheels The entire fleet was inheritedPre Owned Item, in as new condition. Test Run. Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, of Lincoln, was formed as the result of the merger between Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd and Richard Hornsby & Sons Ltd on September 11, 1918 and their first narrow gauge diesel locomotive left the works on September 1, 1931. In the summer of 1932, production was moved to the larger Boultham Works, where the firm were eventually to become Britain's largest builder of diesel locomotives,