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0-4-0 Shunting locomotive, British Railways No.D2767


0-4-0 Shunting locomotive, British Railways No.D2767
Resting outside the Modern Motive Power Depot, Bo'ness. April 2007. Photo A.Proudfoot

SRPS Core Collection, acquired 2000. Operational BR Green livery.
Built 1960, North British Locomotive Co., Queens Park Works, Glasgow.
Works No.28020 225 BHP.

This locomotive represents NBL's late production of diesel locomotives for British Railways, the last time that Scotland's railway builders supplied new locomotives to the British Railways market. It has a MAN engine and a Voith hydraulic transmission, German designs that NBL built under licence.

It entered traffic in 1960 and lasted only 7 years before withdrawal. This design (72 were built for BR) was successful, but the locomotives met the same fate as many small diesel locomotives by other manufacturers as the railway system contracted rapidly in the late 1960s.

The locomotive spent its entire short BR working life allocated to Eastfield depot. After withdrawal, four of this type of shunter were bought by Andrew Barclays of Kilmarnock for conversion to industrial specification. This locomotive was sold by Barclays to Burmah Oil and was delivered to their refinery at Ellesmere Port in 1969. It was used there for 12 years until 1981, by which time it had run less than 4,000 miles. Purchased by SRPS from a private owner, with grant support from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

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