Class 58 - Trainload Coal - 58042 PC017B/C PCA Bulk Cement Wagon As ‘Sprinterisation’ started to bite

As ‘Sprinterisation’ started to bite from the mid 1980s

for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent

chassis chain points and safety chains in metal

albeit underpowered

Class 58 - Trainload Coal - 58042 PC017B/C PCA Bulk Cement Wagon As ‘Sprinterisation’ started to bite58042 was handed over to traffic during May 1986. Like other class members, it carried the Railfreight Red Stripe livery from new. A typical second batch Class 58, it ran with CP3A bogies and a wider silencer. It was named Ironbridge Power Station in September 1986 after the power station located in Shropshire, and it also carried cast Railfreight plaques on the cab fronts. Repainted into Triple Grey livery with Coal Sector branding in 1991, it