Photo BR Class 33002 'Sea King' UK Diesel Loco Through Leamington Spa Stn 1988

Class 33002 Diesel Loco 

Class 33002 Loco at Leamington Spa   Photo: Charles Moorhen

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British Rail 'Crompton' Class 33002 UK diesel locomotive photo, in BR blue livery, passing through Leamington Spa railway station heading in the direction of Banbury on the 8th August 1988.

 

Built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd., at Smethwick, England - one of a total of 98 locos of the class - 33002 (original number D6501) which was at one time named, 'Sea King', was delivered new to Hither Green Depot, Kent, in 1960.

Used on passenger, goods, and 'push-pull' EMU services, locomotive Class 33002 served for 37 years on the British Rail railway network before being withdrawn on the 13th February 1997.  It was temporarily re-instated in January 2002.

33002 was saved from the scrapyard fate of so many of its class by eventually being purchased by the South Devon Diesel Traction Group.

 

 

 
Class 33002, in BR Dutch livery, seen at the South Devon Railway in 2005 shortly after its arrival.  (Photo:  Richard Bruford).

 

 

The loco, the oldest surviving Crompton diesel Class 33, has since been fully restored and is once more in its original working order.

Class 33002 diesel loco can be seen in service at the South Devon Railway, Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK.


Class 33 locomotives on YouTube:

Class 33002 at Loughborough.
Class 33002 on South Devon Railway.

Class 33002 on Great Central Railway.

Class 33002 leaves Spanwick Junction.

Class 33s in the 1990s.

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