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British Rail Class D2/11
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Brush Traction· from 1960· class of 1 (5 built) 200hp diesel-electric shunting locomotives
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- 1. British Steel No.91, (D2999): Andrew Riley· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The British Rail Class D2/11 was a British class of locomotive designed in 1958 by Brush Traction and Beyer, Peacock & Company, which co-operated to produce five prototype diesel-electric shunting locomotives of 0-4-0 wheel arrangement. They were intended to demonstrate a new generation of diesel shunters for industrial and mainline use. Two were loaned to British Railways for trials and one, number D2999, was subsequently purchased by BR. However, no large-scale orders resulted from these demonstrators.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- retired
- 1967
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Brush Traction, Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- British Rail, Eastern Region of British Railways
- top speed
- 29 km/h
- power
- 149 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4970886, Wikipedia: British Rail Class D2/11 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.