>>1758382>Withdrawn in March 1986 with a seized traction motor, for which repair was not authorised,[16] 45015 was heavily cannibalised for spares to keep other Class 45s working. It remained at Toton, its home shed, until at least 1999.[17] The locomotive was moved to Shackerstone, on the Battlefield Line Railway, in 2002, still with the intention of restoration to mainline standard, despite requiring a replacement engine to be found.[18] In 2010 the host railway gave notice to the locomotive's owner that the still-unrestored 45015 needed to move to a new site. Having failed to find a buyer, 45015 was scrapped in November 2021.[19]it sounds like someone had a romantic idea of restoring it and it turned out to be too far gone. I often drive past a derelict citroen DS that someone obviously bought as a project and then ran out of money/time. It's kind of sad. People sometimes don't see sense/cut their losses because they get emotionally attached and maybe some day, any day now, they'll have a chance to restore it, even though their head is telling them it won't ever happen.
nostalgia is a mental illness.
