412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_British Steel and – for those machines

and – for those machines that previously wore Compass branding – the plated central window on both sides of the body

31233 still active for NR

before being renumbered as 7027 under the LNER

Withdrawn in 1959 it was purchased by the NCB and was sent to work at Penallta Colliery in South Wales

412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_British Steel and – for those machinesRuston 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