Some of you may have remembered a few weeks ago, the first ever diesel blog post to be published here on http://www.locoyard.com, with a promise that more would follow if it were popular… which it was!  So here’s another!

50027 Lion is a class 50 diesel locomotive painted in the distinctive Network South East “toothpaste” livery.

Lion’s career in commercial service lasted a little over 23 years and it was withdrawn from service in 1991.  The class 50’s careers were marred by unreliability, but were popular with enthusiasts and around a third of the fifty members of the class have been preserved as a result.

50027 has been located on the Watercress Line for just over a year now and was captured idling at Ropley on Sunday 16th June 2013; on Father Day.

Thanks for reading folks 🙂