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British Rail D0260
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Associated Electrical Industries· from 1962· prototype diesel-electric locomotive built by BRCW & AEI and named "Lion"
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- 1. 20170721 140120 Richtone(HDR): Manchester Model Railways· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
D0260, named Lion, was a one-off prototype Type 4 mainline diesel-electric locomotive built in 1962 by a consortium of Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Sulzer the engine maker and Associated Electrical Industries, at BRCW's Smethwick works near Birmingham. The locomotive's number was derived from its works number, DEL260.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 2.1 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 19.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1962
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Associated Electrical Industries, Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- 2.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 19.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4970923, Wikipedia: British Rail D0260 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.