British Rail Class 06

The British Railways Class 06 is a class of 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical shunters built by Andrew Barclay Sons and Company from 1958 to 1960 for use on the Scottish Region of British Railways. They were originally numbered D2410–D2444 and later given the TOPS numbers 06001–06010.
==Technical details==
Engine is a Gardner 8-cylinder 4 stroke "8L3" connected to a Wilson-Drewry CA5 5-speed epicyclic gearbox with Vulcan-Sinclair type 23 fluid coupling and a Wiseman type 15 RLGB gearbox.
While all technically similar, the locomotives had two different designs for the back of the cab, the first 15 locomotives having three windows, the remaining 20, having two.
==Numbering==
They were originally numbered D2410–D2444. Ten were still in service in January 1973 (D2413/14/20–23/26/37/40/44), these were given the TOPS numbers 06001–06010.
==Preservation==
Only one locomotive survives, number 06003 (formerly D2420). It was the last member of the class in service, and was transferred to the departmental fleet, renumbered 97804, and used at the Reading Signal Works, where it replaced 97020. The locomotive was withdrawn in 1984 and sold to Booth's scrapyard in Rotherham (date unknown) before being saved for preservation by the local South Yorkshire Railway based at Meadowhall in Sheffield. Later owned by HNRC and visited several locations before been stored at the Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester, and in 2013 was moved into the Heritage Shunters Trust's Collection at Peak Rail, Rowsley.
One locomotive, D2432, was sold to P. Wood Shipbreakers of Queenborough, Kent in 1969. It was exported to Italy in 1977, but its subsequent fate is unrecorded, though it was most likely scrapped.
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