Green ‘Whistler' for ELR
ALTHOUGH currently on hire to Locomotive Services Ltd, No. D345 (40145) is planned to return to its East Lancashire Railway base for the line's gala on September 17/18.
The loco has recently received bodywork repairs at Crewe Diesel
depot, and is being repainted into BR green with small yellow warning panels, as carried in the 1960s (see page 87). The ELR gala will be one of the first opportunities to see the loco following completion of this work.