Over the weekend of 9th. and 10th. of April 2022, the Midland Railway Butterley were running a pair of ‘Peaks’ in top and tail mode.
Both looked and sounded good and it was a pleasure to see them.
The British Rail built Sulzer engined 1Co-Co1 diesel electric locomotives that became known as ‘Peaks’ were eventually to fall into three sub groups which were recognised by their TOPS classification as classes 44, 45 and 46.
The first ten (numbered D1 to D10) were given names of British mountains (hence Peaks).
These were to become Class 44 of which D4 ‘Great Gable’ is featured in this blog.
The other ‘Peak’ featured is a Class 46 being numbered D182.
Under the TOPS scheme D4 became 44004 and D182 became 46045.
All three classes were structurally the same and had the same Sulzer engine only being different from each other because of the of the different internal equipment fitted.
D4 ‘British Railways’ (BR) ‘Great Gable’ BR. built Diesel Electric Locomotive / 1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
D4 ‘British Railways’ ‘Great Gable’ BR built Diesel Electric Locomotive /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
D182 ‘British Railways’ BR built Diesel Electric Locomotive /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
D182 ‘British Railways’ BR built Diesel Electric Locomotive /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
What might look like a patch of unpainted bodywork towards the front is in fact the reflection of the cream paint on the signal box which is out of the picture to the left.
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