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British Rail Class D3/7
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Derby Works· from 1939· class of 40 350hp diesel-electric switchers
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Diesel-Lokomotive LMS Nr. 7080: Unknown photographer· Public domain
what is it?
The British Railways Class D3/7 is a class of 0-6-0 diesel electric shunting locomotives built as LMS Nos. 7080–7119. The class were built from May 1939 through to July 1942 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at their Derby Works using a diesel electric transmission supplied by English Electric.
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 87 years ago, in 1939.
- 9.5 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 28 years (1939–1967).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1939–1942
- in service from
- 1939
- retired
- 1967
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Derby Works, English Electric
- operators
- London, Midland and Scottish Railway, British Rail, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Egyptian National Railways, London Midland Region of British Railways, War Department
- top speed
- 32 km/h
- power
- 261 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 9.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3305056, Wikipedia: British Rail Class D3/7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.