50026 Class 50 ex-'Indomitable' fading away in C. F. Booths scrapyard in Rotherham
50026 - one of my favourite 50s seen languishing with another of the class in Booth's scrapyard.
 
<b>Locomotive History</b>
D426 entered service 22-Jun-68
Renumbered 50026 in 1974
Named 'Indomitable' 29-Mar-78
Withdrawn 11-Dec-90
'Indomitable' was the only Class 50 to make it out of Booth's of Rotherham alive!

<b>50026 “Indomitable”</b> was amongst a batch of nine locos sent to Booths scrapyard in Rotherham early in 1992 along with 50001, 50004, 50016, 50020, 50023, 50036, 50040 and 50045. All nine locos were part of a bid by Operation Collingwood - an engineering charity established in the early 1990s to enable young engineering apprentices to rebuild the locomotives - however, as the required funding was not forthcoming, Booths forced Operation Collingwood to choose the best five, with the others to be cut up. 50004, 50016, 50020 and 50036 were all cut up in the spring of 1992. The charity was wound up in 2002 and 50001, 50023, 50040 and 50045 met a similar fate. 50026 was the only one saved and ended up preserved on the K&amp;WVR.

Information courtesy of the website <a href="https://www.englishelectric.org.uk/50026" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.englishelectric.org.uk/50026</a>
and Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_50" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_50</a>

Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR camera.

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