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British Rail Class D2/7
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited· from 1955· class of 10 204hp diesel-mechanical shunting locomotives
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- 1. Hudswell D707 at the Rutland Railway 05-09-25 31: No machine-readable author provided. AHEMSLTD~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY 2.5
what is it?
British Rail Class D2/7 was a locomotive commissioned by British Rail in England. It was a diesel powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period built by Hudswell Clarke with a Gardner engine. The mechanical transmission, using a scoop control fluid coupling and three-speed Power-flow SSS (synchro-self-shifting) gearbox, was a Hudswell Clarke speciality.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- Served for 12 years (1955–1967).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1956
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1967
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-mechanical
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited
- operators
- British Rail, Eastern Region of British Railways, London Midland Region of British Railways
- top speed
- 23 km/h
- power
- 152 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0 DM
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4970891, Wikipedia: British Rail Class D2/7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.