D0260, named Lion, was a prototype Type 4 mainline diesel locomotive built in 1962 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, in association with Sulzer and Associated Electrical Industries, at their Smethwick works in Birmingham to demonstrate their wares to British Railways. The locomotive's number was derived from its works number, 260. 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. ... Sulzer is a Swiss engineering firm which produces large motors. ... Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) was a British engineering company formed in 1959 by the merger of the British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH) and Metropolitan Vickers. ... This article is about the city in England. ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ...
It was of Co-Co wheel arrangement and was fitted with a Sulzer 12LDA28C engine of 2750 hp. It had a maximum speed of 100 mph and weighed 114 tons. It was painted white with five gold stripes along the bottom half of its bodyside. The UIC classification is a comprehensive system for describing the wheel arrangement of a locomotive. ...
BR tested it initially on Western Region services out of London Paddington, and later on the Eastern Region from London King's Cross. However, BR decided to purchase its new Type 4 fleet from Brush Traction (the Class 47) and so D0260 was withdrawn and scrapped at the end of 1963. Class 47 diesel locomotive, no. ... Class 47, no. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Diesel locomotives - Electric locomotives - DMU - DEMU - AC EMU - DC EMU - Departmental units
BritishRail Class 11 was applied to a batch of locomotives built from April 1945 to December 1952, based on a similar earlier batch.
The BritishRail Class 97/6 diesel shunting locomotives were purpose-built for departmental duties by Ruston and Hornsby at Lincoln in 1953 (97650) or 1959 (97651-654).
Returning to British Railways in 1963, Falcon spent six months working out of Sheffield on both passenger and freight diagrams, after which its testing was completed.
From 1965 onward the locomotive, still owned by Brush, was under contract with British Railways so that operation and repair would be handled by them, with only major repairs being handed back to the builder.
In 1970, BritishRail approached Brush Traction with a proposal to buy the (by now practically worthless) locomotive for its scrap value, which was accepted by the builder; the loco underwent a rebuild at BREL Swindon, emerging in corporate Rail Blue with full yellow ends and bearing the new number D1200.
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