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London Underground diesel locomotives
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Petters Limited· Diesel engines on British metro system
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Rolls Royce Sentinel DL83 Diesel Shunter at the Nene Valley Railway - Flickr - mick - Lumix: Mick from Northamptonshire, England· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
Diesel locomotives have seen limited use on the London Underground, largely because exhaust gases cannot be discharged when the vehicles are working in tunnels. A prototype diesel engine numbered DEL120 was built in 1939 from two 1915 stock motor cars, which was expected to be part of a batch of ten, but experience with battery locomotives showed that these were a better alternative. Three 0-6-0 diesels (DL81-DL83) were obtained in 1971, to replace the last steam engines, but were too short to operate the signalling system, and too heavy for some of the bridges.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- Deep-level tube
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Petters Limited
- top speed
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- power
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From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6670959, Wikipedia: London Underground diesel locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.