GWR diesel shunters

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The Great Western Railway purchased two diesel shunters, and ordered a further seven immediately prior to Nationalisation, which were delivered to British Rail in 1948-49. The two shunters used by the GWR were numbered 1 and 2, while a series commencing at 501 was planned for the new locomotives ordered in the 1940s. British Rail numbered 2 and the new locomotives in a series commencing at 15100.

Contents 1 1 2 2 / 15100 3 501 / 15107 4 502-507 / 15101-15106

[edit] 1

This locomotive was built by Fowler in 1933 and was used at Swindon works. It was a 0-4-0 diesel mechanical shunter with a 70 hp engine, 3 ft diameter wheels and a wheelbase of 5 ft 6 in. It was very similar to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's departmental locomotive number 2, which was built a couple of years later. It was withdrawn in 1940 and sold to the Ministry of Supply.

[edit] 2 / 15100

This locomotive was built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1936 and was allocated to Swindon. It was a 0-6-0 diesel electric shunter. It was renumbered 15100 by British Rail in 1948, withdrawn by them in 1965 and scrapped in early 1966.

• see British Rail Class D3/10

[edit] 501 / 15107

Brush/Petter 360 bhp

• see British Rail 15107

[edit] 502-507 / 15101-15106

English Electric 350 bhp

• see British Rail Class D3/11