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British Rail Class D2/1 was a locomotive commissioned by British Rail in
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period built by the North British Locomotive Company with a Paxman engine. Eight locomotives were built and they were numbered D2700-D2707. River Eden the shunter at RAF Leuchars was built to the same specification as the D2/1 and is preserved at Fife Heritage Railway.


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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 ...


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* D002.01 NBL locomotives B locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1953 Standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain Scrapped locomotives Shunting locomotives {{diesel-loco-stub