page_title: British Rail Class 44
section_title: Teething troubles
hierarchical_section_title: British Rail Class 44 / Teething troubles
caption_attribution_description: English: Diesel-hauled empties passing one of the original Long Eaton Stations. View northwards, towards Toton Marshalling Yard (a mile ahead) and the Erewash Valley ex-Midland main line to Chesterfield, Sheffield etc. The station closed on 2/1/67; the former Sawley Junction, 1½ miles west and on the Trent - Derby line was renamed Long Eaton in 1/68 and remains to serve the town. The locomotive is one of the first English-Electric 'Peak' Type 4 (later Class 44) 2,300hp 1-Co-Co-1's, No. D5 'Cross Fell' - built in 1959.
context_page_description: The British Rail Class 44 or Sulzer Type 4 diesel locomotives were built by British Railways' Derby Works between 1959 and 1960, intended for express passenger services.
  They were originally numbered D1-D10 and named after British mountains, and consequently nicknamed Peaks.
context_section_description: The class suffered 'a considerable amount of early "teething trouble"' during the early 1960s. The bogies suffered from frame fractures. The vacuum exhausters gave trouble, as did the auxiliary motor, the original batteries supplied were also inadequate and soon became exhausted. The main problem with the exhausters was that they were mounted in the centre of the engine room and so had to be lifted through the roof by crane, taking 8-12 hours to change. The truss girder used for the body sides meant that there was no access through the sides of the bodywork. Considerable trouble was experienced with the water tanks for the steam heating boilers due to fractures. 
  Once the class 45 units were available, the locomotives were re-assigned to Toton and freight duties, and the steam heating boilers were removed.
caption: D5 Cross Fell at Long Eaton with a train of 16 tonne mineral wagons, May 1962
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