518494/1967 - Tarmac Roadstone No. 655/29/38 - Tarmac Yellow Olive - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Railfreight Grey Etched metal pre-painted name and

Etched metal pre-painted name and numberplates

for use at the Signalling & Telecommunications Department workshops at Reading and was delivered on 19 January 1957

using the flowing ribbon version of the logo

having split from the Aberdeen Service with two sleepers

with 22xxx in black

518494/1967 - Tarmac Roadstone No. 655/29/38 - Tarmac Yellow Olive - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_Railfreight Grey Etched metal pre-painted name andRuston Works No. 518494 was the last 88DS to be built by the firm, leaving Boultham Works on November 29th 1967 bound for Tarmac Roadstone Holdings Ltds Southern Division Plant at Hayes, where it was allocated the number 655 29 38 and painted into Tarmacs in house livery of Olive, with the Tarmac legend and Seven Ts logo being added. There, it joined a 4wDM Hibberd Planet, FH3765, which had been at the site since 1956.