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British Rail 15107 was a
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diesel-electric shunter locomotive commissioned by the
Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
from its Swindon Works, but delivered to
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after
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. It had a Petter 4-cylinder engine. Its shed allocation in 1950 was Western Region, 82B,
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,
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. Number 15107 had a short life and never acquired a British Railways classification. It was withdrawn in June 1958 and broken up at Swindon.


See also

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British Rail Class D3/14 British Rail Class D3/14 was a diesel-electric locomotive built by the London and North Eastern Railway at its Doncaster Works. It had a Petter engine, and Brush Traction electricals. It was absorbed by British Railways on nationalisation, b ...
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GWR diesel shunters The Great Western Railway purchased two diesel shunters, and ordered a further seven immediately prior to Nationalisation, which were delivered to British Rail in 1948–49. The two shunters used by the GWR were numbered 1 and 2, while a serie ...
*
List of British Rail classes This article lists the wide variety of locomotives and multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for classifying its steam locomotive types ...


Sources

* Brush Diesel & Electric Locomotive Works List, re-printed by the Industrial Railway Society in 1999 * Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives (various dates) * "Western Region Allocations", pp. 38–39, published in 1953 by the Locomotive Club of Great Britain * 15107 Brush Traction locomotives C locomotives Individual locomotives of Great Britain Railway locomotives introduced in 1949 Scrapped locomotives Unique locomotives Standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain Diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain {{diesel-loco-stub