Британдық 02 локомотивтері: тарихы мен қолданылуы

Class of 0 4 0 diesel hydraulic shunting locomotives

The British Rail Class 02 are a class of twenty 0 4 0 diesel hydraulic shunting locomotives built by the Yorkshire Engine Company in 1960 (first ten, D2850 D2859) and 1961 (D2860 D2869) for service in areas of restricted loading gauge and curvature such as docks. They had the door to the cab at the rear, with a railed veranda behind the cab; this feature was very unusual on British Rail locomotives, although it was used on many Yorkshire Engine Co. designs and is quite normal in North American practice.

With the changes in the role of the British railway system and the closing of many of the facilities in which the Class 02 locomotives worked, they were increasingly surplus to requirements. The first locomotives were withdrawn in December 1969 from the Preston division of the Midland Region and by the end of 1971 there were only four left in service with British Rail. Of these, three survived long enough to enter the BR Total Operations Processing System computer system: 02001 (formerly D2851), 02003 (D2853), and 02004 (D2856), and all three were withdrawn in June 1975 from Allerton TMD. Being between nine and fourteen years old when withdrawn, they were still capable of work, and eleven were sold to private industry, with the remaining nine being scrapped. + Table of withdrawals Year Quantity inservice atstart of year Quantitywithdrawn Locomotive numbers Notes 1969 20 5 D2861–63/68–69 D2862 and D2868 sold for industrial use. 1970 15 10 D2850/54–55/58–60/64–67 D2854, D2858 and D2865 7 sold for industrial use. 1971 5 1 D2857 1972 4 0 – 1973 4 1 D2852 Allocated TOPS number 02002. 1974 3 0 – 1975 3 3 02001/03–04 02003 sold for industrial use.

D2852 survived in BR service longer than most other locomotives in this class and was allocated the TOPS number 02002, but never carried it. After leaving Bank Hall Shed, the locomotive was transferred to Speke Junction in 1966, and worked at Liverpool's Alexandra Dock during its time there. However, the locomotive was moved to Allerton Depot two years later. While in its early years, still in Bank Hall Shed, the units worked mostly the Great Howard Street Goods Yard. Despite its allocations, the unit was occasionally moved to Liverpool Brunswick Dock. While in Allerton Depot, it frequently worked alongside the aforementioned D2851 prior to receiving its TOPS number. D2852 was withdrawn in October 1973, and was scrapped on site by Avon Transmissions on the first of March 1976.

D2853 was given the works number 2812 when first built. It entered service in October 1960, and after leaving Bank Hall Shed it worked the Liverpool Docks until it was then transferred to Speke Junction. Despite being transferred to the Docks, it was still officially allocated to Bank Hall Shed. The locomotive was present on the Derby Works Open Day on 31 August 1968. Also in 1968, the unit was transferred from Speke Junction to Allerton TMD with D2852, where it would spend the rest of its BR life working. It was also seen moving goods around the area of Allerton, at Liverpool Exchange in 1973, and in Garston docks in 1975. In 1974, the unit began carrying its new TOPS number, 02003. However, that number didn't last long, as the unit was withdrawn in June 1975. Its last years were spent working with D2851, D2852 and D2856. Following withdrawal, it was sold to LCP Fuels of Pensnett near Birmingham.

After Leaving Bank Hall Shed, D2854 stayed in the Liverpool area, but was withdrawn shortly after in 1970 and sold to C F Booth of Rotherham.

D2855 entered service in Bank Hall Shed in November 1960 and was a very short lived locomotive. It was moved to Arpley Yard in Warrington towards the end of its life in the late 1960s before being scrapped on 1 June 1970.

D2856 was one of three units to survive long enough to carry a TOPS number. It left Bank Hall Shed in October 1966 and was transferred to Speke Junction and then to Allerton Depot in May 1968. It worked there alongside the other units that survived long enough to enter TOPS until the last three units were withdrawn in June 1975. In 1974, however, the unit was briefly used in Liverpool Exchange. D2856 was stripped for spares in September 1975, with the engine compartment being destroyed in the process, and the rest of the locomotive was scrapped the following month. Before withdrawal and carrying its new number, 02004 worked briefly at Bank Hall Shed once again.

D2857 was given the works number 2816, and like many others of the class worked in only Merseyside under British Rail starting in Bank Hall Shed in December 1960. It then found itself in the Great Howard Street Goods Yard, then Liverpool Exchange, Speke Junction and finally Allerton Depot, where it resided until April 1971. It was then sold to Lowton Metals Ltd. in Haydock.

D2858 originally worked in Newton Heath until 1970, when it was permanently withdrawn and then was sold over to ICI Fertilisers in Widnes, who painted the engine red.

D2859 was given the works number 2825. It was allocated to Burton shed in December 1960 and stayed there until December 1964. It was replaced by Class 03 D2384, which was itself transferred in October 1967. It also worked around the Workington area before being left to rust at the seaside for a number of years prior to scrapping.

D2860 was withdrawn in 1970, and four years later was picked for use in the National Railway Museum as a shunting locomotive, where it still resides today and is labelled as preserved. Within Preston, it was stored in Lostock Shed. Its number was commonly placed on Class 02 Model trains.

D2862, after leaving Bank hall shed, was moved to Preston at Lostock shed in 1964 and was one of the first five members of the class to be withdrawn in December 1969. It was sold to NCB afterwards to work on various collieries.

D2863 operated in the same areas as D2862 until withdrawal 1969 after which it was scrapped.

D2864 left Bank Hall shed and was sent slightly east to Patricroft Yard, but then was moved to Newton heath where it was stored alongside D2869. It was eventually scrapped in 1970.

D2865 left Bank Hall shed and worked in Warrington before being withdrawn, having been in service only nine years at the time. It was sold into industrial use at Blue Circle Industries Ltd., Kilverington Gypsum Works.

D2866 lived a short, unknown BR life and was withdrawn in 1970, and was sold to Arnott Young & Co. in Dalmuir yard. During its BR life it was once transported to Mountsorrel.

Eight withdrawn locomotives were sold into industrial use in a large variety of locations.

02003 was sold to LCP Fuels of Pensnett/Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, being renamed Peter. It began operations in 1976, and spent most of its time in small enclosures with tight turns hauling small industrial goods, but in 1980, 02003 was seen working with Class 25 unit 25 273 in the main Pensnett yard working with coke hoppers and larger wagons. It spent its life there until 1997, when it was acquired by the South Yorkshire Preservation Society.

D2854 was purchased in 1971 by the C F Booth Scrapyard of Rotherham for use there. By 1985, much of the exterior of the unit had been cut up and one could see through one end of the locomotive to the other, likely for maintenance. In 1989, the locomotive was sold to the South Yorkshire Railway (now the Heritage Shunters Trust) for preservation, where it still resides.

D2857 operated as a scrapyard shunter in Bird Group's scrapyard in Long Marston, where it worked for over a decade before being stored, after which its condition deteriorated. It was stored alongside an ex GWR iron tool van until 1992, when it was finally scrapped.

D2858 worked in ICI Fertilisers in Widnes until the 1980s, when the factory was closed. It was then sold to Lowton Metals near Haydock, who overhauled the locomotive, and it worked there until 1988 when it was moved to Ripley and then preserved.

D2854 was purchased from C F Booth in 1989 by the Heritage Shunters Trust, and was originally moved to Meadowhall in 1989, where it was overhauled. It was not seen working on Peak Rail until 2003, where it has continually ran there since.

D2858 was moved to Swanwick Junction in 2002, and in 2004 was repainted into BR Green livery. Since then, D2858 has been preserved in the Midland Railway Centre, and it often runs between Swanwick Junction and Butterley and occasionally further.

D2860 has resided at the National Railway Museum since shortly after it opened and still works there today. It operates as a shunting locomotive which moves other exhibits around, particularly ones which cannot move on their own power, and it is rarely put on display due to the Class 02 being relatively common in preservation.

D2866 started its preserved life in Bridge of Dun on the Caledonian Railway and was still carrying its old livery and number. It was eventually moved to Meadowhall for restoration, and eventually made its way to Rowsley on Peak Rail, where it was dismantled to replace broken parts. It now regularly operates there and is in good condition, and has never left Peak Rail since leaving Meadowhall.

D2867 spent nearly six years in Meadowhall before it was sold to the Battlefield Line Railway in 2001, which is where it resides today. It has, however, been on tour once through Runcorn, Crewe, Nuneaton, Manchester and Warrington. Upon arrival in the Battlefield Line Railway, it was still in its previous industrial livery. The unit has been refurbished by the railway and is in operable condition.

D2868 was stored in Meadowhall until 2004 when it was sold to Barrow Hill Engine Shed, where it resides today. It travelled to Durham in 2006 and to Widnes in 2007. Between 2008 and 2009 it went on loan to Peak Rail, and again in 2013–2014. Between 2012 and 2016, it went to Manchester and was spotted by Deansgate. After 2016, it went back to Barrow Hill where it still resides, mostly on static display, though it is capable of moving under its own traction.

The engine is a Rolls Royce C6NFL176 6 cyl. in line connected to a Rolls Royce series 10,000 three stage twin disc torque converter and a manually operated YEC reduction and reversing final drive gearbox. The engine and transmission are mounted at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal to allow the overall length and height of the locomotive to be reduced. Unlike most earlier British Rail shunters, the Class 02s were built with train vacuum brakes.

In addition to these locomotives produced for British Railways, around fifty very similar locomotives (most with diesel electric transmissions and/or more powerful engines) were produced for industrial customers. Many of these can now be found in preservation as well, since few industrial users have their own railways anymore. Quite a few are painted in fictitious British Railways livery and numbering, such as 02 101.

The Class 02 will be available as a model in OO gauge from the Danish manufacturers Heljan, and also available in O gauge.