47306_2208_Bodmin
47306 The Sapper drifts into Bodmin General working a passenger duty, Bodmin and Wenford Railway, 13th August 2022.
Locomotive History
47306 was originally D1787 and was from a batch of eighty locomotives to be built at Brush, Loughborough. It was fitted with a Brush TG-172-50 Mk1 main generator and Brush TM64-68 Mk1a traction motors connected in an all parallel arrangement. Although all the fittings. pipework and water tank were provided for a steam heating boiler it was not fitted and was replaced with a concrete block for balancing purposes. It was built with dual brakes and fitted with slow speed control for Merry Go Round coal duties. It was renumbered 47306 in April 1974, had its never used boiler water tanks replaced with long range fuel tanks in March 1992 and had its vacuum brakes isolated in February 1992, removed in May 1995 and restored by April 2001.
D1787 it entered traffic in November 1964, allocated to Tinsley MPD and would spend virtually its whole career (apart from short spells at Toton, Crewe and Kingmoor in the early 1980’s) allocated to either Tinsley or Immingham until its final transfer to Bescot in April 1998 prior to its withdrawal ten months later in February 1999. Following a period stored at St Blazey it entered preservation at the Bodmin and Wenford railway in September 2007.
47306_2208_Bodmin
47306 The Sapper drifts into Bodmin General working a passenger duty, Bodmin and Wenford Railway, 13th August 2022.
Locomotive History
47306 was originally D1787 and was from a batch of eighty locomotives to be built at Brush, Loughborough. It was fitted with a Brush TG-172-50 Mk1 main generator and Brush TM64-68 Mk1a traction motors connected in an all parallel arrangement. Although all the fittings. pipework and water tank were provided for a steam heating boiler it was not fitted and was replaced with a concrete block for balancing purposes. It was built with dual brakes and fitted with slow speed control for Merry Go Round coal duties. It was renumbered 47306 in April 1974, had its never used boiler water tanks replaced with long range fuel tanks in March 1992 and had its vacuum brakes isolated in February 1992, removed in May 1995 and restored by April 2001.
D1787 it entered traffic in November 1964, allocated to Tinsley MPD and would spend virtually its whole career (apart from short spells at Toton, Crewe and Kingmoor in the early 1980’s) allocated to either Tinsley or Immingham until its final transfer to Bescot in April 1998 prior to its withdrawal ten months later in February 1999. Following a period stored at St Blazey it entered preservation at the Bodmin and Wenford railway in September 2007.