412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green Livery_Rail Blue before being renumbered as 7027

before being renumbered as 7027 under the LNER

Leaving a hole in the fleet

New to Old Oak Common shed and not relocating until the war years

eventually coming under the custodianship of Eastern Rail Services

The star of our second run and the number one Deltic on many customers’ wishlists is the one and only RSG in its iconic preservation era two-tone green while operating Virgin CrossCountry services between 1997 and 1999

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green Livery_Rail Blue before being renumbered as 7027Ruston 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