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British Rail Class D1/3
No. D2958 in BR green livery at Stratford MPD
Type and origin Power type Diesel-mechanical Builder Ruston & Hornsby Serial number 390774, 390777 Build date 1956 Total produced 2
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 28.00long tons (28.45 t; 31.36short tons) Prime mover Ruston 6VPHL Transmission Mechanical, Ruston gearbox MU working Not fitted Train heating None Train brakes None
Performance figures Maximum speed 15 mph (24 km/h) Power output Engine: 165 bhp (123 kW) Tractive effort 14,350 lbf (63.8 kN)
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, onescrapped.

British Rail Class D1/3 (formerly DY5) was a locomotive class commissioned byBritish Rail inEngland. It was adiesel powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period built byRuston & Hornsby at their Iron Works in Lincoln. In appearance, it was similar toBritish Rail Class 97/6, but with an0-4-0 wheel arrangement.

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

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 It was withdrawn in March 1967 and moved to Slag Reduction, Ickles, Rotherham for scrap in June and was cut up by August.^[2]

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 It was withdrawn in January 1968 when it was sold toC.F. Booth in Rotherham, moving there in May 1968.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]

• List of British Rail classes

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• Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives (Winter 1962/3 ed.). p. 204.

• British Railways. Standard Locomotive Diagrams(PDF). British Railways Board. p. 5 (per pdf), DM/102/1 – via Barrowmore MRG.

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