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British Rail 11001
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Ashford Works· from 1949· single 500 hp (370 kW) 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical locomotive
what is it?
11001 was one of the first British Railways diesel locomotives, built in 1949 at British Railways' Ashford railway works. It was designed by Oliver Bulleid when he was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway. It was powered by a Paxman RPH Series 1 engine, capable of delivering 500 brake horsepower (370 kW) at 1,250 rpm.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 77 years ago, in 1949.
- 373 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 10.1 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 9 years (1950–1959).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1950
- retired
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Ashford Works
- operators
- Southern Region of British Railways
- top speed
- 72 km/h
- power
- 373 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 10.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4970668, Wikipedia: British Rail 11001 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.