412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rail Blue ‘thunderbird’

‘thunderbird’

The volume of all individual sound fragments may be adjusted separately

Its appearance reflected that of BR class 9F 92220

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7714 was an early “contractor” built locomotive

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Rail Blue ‘thunderbird’Ruston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the