412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green 7mm makes this locomotive stand out

makes this locomotive stand out from the rest of the fleet

This was partially due to poor wheelslip protection and lack of sanding equipment

Three styles of buffer: large round Oleo

Mark 2b SO - 935

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green 7mm makes this locomotive stand outRuston 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