BR BoBo Class 33 Diesel Locomotive D6515
by Gordon James
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BR BoBo Class 33 Diesel Locomotive D6515
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Gordon James
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The British Rail Class 33, also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton, is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives, ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.
They were produced as a more powerful Type 3 (1,550 bhp) development of the 1,160 bhp Type 2 Class 26. This was achieved, quite simply, by removing the steam heating boiler and fitting a larger 8 cylinder version of the previous 6 cylinder engine. This was possible because of the traffic requirements of the Southern Region: locomotive-hauled passenger traffic depended on seasonal tourist traffic and was heavier in the summer, when carriage heating was not needed. In the winter, their expected use was to be for freight. Thus, they became the most powerful BR Bo-Bo diesel locomotive. The perennially unreliable steam heating boiler could also be avoided.
A total of 98 were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company(BRCW) and they were known as "Cromptons" after the Crompton Parkinsonelectrical equipment installed in them.[2] Like their lower-powered BRCW sisters, the Class 26 and Class 27 locomotives, their bodywork and cab ends were of all steel construction. They were very similar in appearance to class 26 locos, but carried Southern Region two-digit headcode blinds between the cab windows.
British Rail Bo-Bo Class 33 "Crompton" No. 33012 / D6515 At Swanage Railway in Dorset, England.
R Bo-Bo Class 33 "Crompton" No. 33012 / D6515Crompton No 33012 is owned by the 71A Loco Group, and returned to Swanage in time for the May 2011 Diesel Gala after undergoing overhaul at Eastleigh works.The 71A locomotive Group was founded in 1996 by a group of Eastleigh train drivers who came together to preserve class 33 number 33008 Eastleigh.The Group successfully tendered for 33012 - along with 33109 and 33208 - when EWS offered several class 33s for sale in March 1997.33012 was gradually repaired and eventually moved to the Swanage Railway in October 1999.33012 hauled the final freight train on the Wimborne line on 3 May 1977 carrying a special headboard "The Last Train from Wimborne 3 May 1977".
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