British Rail Class D1/3

Specifications
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	0-4-0 DM
• UIC	B
Gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Wheel diameter	3 ft 4 in (1.016 m)
Loco weight	28.00 long tons (28.45 t; 31.36 short tons)
Prime mover	Ruston 6VPHL
Transmission	Mechanical, Ruston gearbox
MU working	Not fitted
Train heating	None
Train brakes	None

Type and origin
Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-mechanical
Builder	Ruston & Hornsby
Serial number	390774, 390777
Build date	1956
Total produced	2

British Rail Class D1/3
British Rail Class D1/3
	No. D2958 in BR green livery at Stratford MPD
Power type
Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-mechanical
Builder	Ruston & Hornsby
Serial number	390774, 390777
Build date	1956
Total produced	2
Configuration:;
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	0-4-0 DM
• UIC	B
Gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Wheel diameter	3 ft 4 in (1.016 m)
Loco weight	28.00 long tons (28.45 t; 31.36 short tons)
Prime mover	Ruston 6VPHL
Transmission	Mechanical, Ruston gearbox
MU working	Not fitted
Train heating	None
Train brakes	None
Maximum speed
Performance figures
Maximum speed	15 mph (24 km/h)
Power output	Engine: 165 bhp (123 kW)
Tractive effort	14,350 lbf (63.8 kN)
Operators
Career
Operators	British Railways
Class	DY5, later D1/3, later 1/16. No TOPS class.
Numbers	11507, 11508; D2957, D2958 from 1958
Axle load class	Route availability 3
Retired	1967–1968
Disposition	One sold for industrial use, one scrapped.

British Rail Class D1/3 (formerly DY1) was a locomotive class commissioned by British Rail in England. It was a diesel powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period built by Ruston & Hornsby at their Iron Works in Lincoln. In appearance, it was similar to British Rail Class 97/6, but with an 0-4-0 wheel arrangement.

D2958 was later sold for use at C.F. Booth Ltd., Rotherham.^[1]

Allocations

D2957

Delivered as 11507, renumbered April 1958. Delivered to Immingham Shed in March 1956, moved to Stratford Shed in January 1957. It was then moved to Goole Shed in August 1966 but stored at Hull Dairycoates. It was withdrawn in March 1967 and moved to Slag Reduction, Ickles, Rotherham for scrap in June and was cut up by August.^[2]

D2958

Delivered as 11508, renumbered March 1958. Delivered to Immingham Shed in May 1956, moved to Stratford Shed in December 1956. It was withdrawn in January 1968 when it was sold to C.F. Booth in Rotherham, moving there in May 1968. It continued in use at the companies South Yorkshire yard until 1981 when it was taken out of use; it was scrapped in October 1984.^[2]

References

^ Imdustrial Locomotives 1982 including preserved and minor railway locomotives. Industrial Railway Society. 1982. ISBN 0-901096-43-1.
^ ^a ^b The Allocation History of BR Diesel Shunters (Second ed.). Heritage Shunters Trust. 2018. p. 80.