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Encyclopedia > British Rail Class 33
D6547 in original green livery without yellow warning panels, 1963.
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D6547 in original green livery without yellow warning panels, 1963.
Class 33/0 33 025 Sultan at Weymouth.
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Class 33/0 33 025 Sultan at Weymouth.
33/1 33 119 negotiates the backstreets of Weymouth on its way to the quay during August 1981. Note the push-pull cables on the cab front.
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33/1 33 119 negotiates the backstreets of Weymouth on its way to the quay during August 1981. Note the push-pull cables on the cab front.
Class 33/2 No. 33 208, one of those built with narrower bodies at Dorchester with a nuclear flask train.
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Class 33/2 No. 33 208, one of those built with narrower bodies at Dorchester with a nuclear flask train.

The British Rail Class 33 also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton is a class of Bo-Bo diesel locomotives built for the Southern Region between 1960 and 1962. A total of 98 was built by BRCW, and they were called "Cromptons" after the Crompton-Parkinson electrical equipment installed in them. They began service on the South-Eastern Division of the Southern Region but rapidly spread across the whole Region, and many were used much further afield. They were built with the ability only to supply the new type of electrical train heating, not the more traditional steam heating which most passenger carriages then used, so in the early years their use as winter-time passenger locomotives was restricted to the more modern passenger carriages. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x720, 162 KB) Summary © Max Batten http://www. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x720, 162 KB) Summary © Max Batten http://www. ... Image File history File links 33025_Sultan. ... Image File history File links 33025_Sultan. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x747, 200 KB) Summary © Max Batten 33119 negotiates the backstreets of Weymouth on its way to the quay during August 1981 http://www. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x747, 200 KB) Summary © Max Batten 33119 negotiates the backstreets of Weymouth on its way to the quay during August 1981 http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (918x528, 50 KB) Summary © John Griffiths class 33 33208 waits at Dorchester Yard with the Nuclear Flask from Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (918x528, 50 KB) Summary © John Griffiths class 33 33208 waits at Dorchester Yard with the Nuclear Flask from Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1488, 700 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): West Coast Railway Company British Rail Class 33 Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1488, 700 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): West Coast Railway Company British Rail Class 33 Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added... West Coast Railway Company (WCRC) is a railway spot-hire company and charter train operator, based at Carnforth in Lancashire. ... Caerphilly Castle Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) is a town in Glamorgan, Wales, located at the bottom of the Rhymney Valley. ... December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Bo-Bo is in UIC notation a locomotive with two four-wheeled bogies with all axles powered. ... Great Western Railway No. ... Southern Region may be: Southern Region, Malawi Southern Region of British Railways This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRC&W) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divded by the boundary between the two places. ...


There were three different types:

  • 86 were built as standard locomotives, and the remainder of this type which were not converted (see below) - 67 in total - had numbers beginning 33/0;
  • 19 of the standard type were subsequently fitted with push-pull equipment to handle trains between Bournemouth and Weymouth (trains operating on this line started at London Waterloo where they were powered by third-rail electric traction via Winchester and Southampton until Bournemouth. They usually consisted of 12 carriages divided into three blocks of four carriages - one of these blocks would be powerful 3200hp 4 REP electric multiple unit, while the leading blocks would be "trailling" - unpowered - 4TC multiple units. At Bournemouth, the block at the rear would be detached, and a modified Class 33 diesel-powered locomotive would be attached to the front unpowered carriages so that they could continue over the non-electrified tracks to Poole and Weymouth. The electric unit remained at Bournemouth or returned back to London with another train. Meanwhile the unpowered carriages, when returning from Weymouth to Bournemouth, had the locomotive remain at the rear, pushing them, and a separate driving compartment at what was then the front of the first carriage was used to control the train). These modified push-pull locomotives were given numbers starting 33/1;
  • 12 were built with bodies which were 7 inches narrower for the Hastings Line (their numbers begin 33/2). These locomotives were smaller in order to fit the reduced gauge on that line.

Most of these locomotives have now been withdrawn from active duty, though some are still in service with Fragonset, Direct Rail Services and on preserved railways. The Hastings Line is a railway line in Kent and Sussex, which links Hastings with Tonbridge, and from there into London via Sevenoaks. ... Class 31, no. ... Class 37/0 no. ...


In the Day Out with Thomas events, there's a diesel who has the same type as the Class 33. It's Charlie Crompton and he is now part of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) is a British childrens television series which was first broadcast in 1984. ...


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Steve's Page on British Rail Diesels - The "Crompton" (class 33) (2413 words)
The BRCW Type 3 locomotives (later to be known as class 33) were introduced as a direct result of the 1955 modernization plan.
The class 24s were returned to the LMR in 1962 but an occasional one was borrowed later so this wasn't the end of seeing these two locomotive classes running together.
The ninety four class 33 locomotives to remain in service in 1983 made up half of the Southern Region locomotive fleet with the rest of the fleet consisting of forty seven class 73 electro-diesels and forty seven shunting locomotives (mostly class 09 with the remainder being class 08 except for one class 03).
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