BR Class 09 09107

BRBritish Rail or British Railways Class 09 09107
BRBritish Rail or British Railways Class 09 09107
Built By	BRBritish Rail or British Railways Horwich Works
Configuration	0-6-0
Power type	Diesel Electrical
Status	Operational
Loco Number	09107
Other Numbers	08845, D4013
History
Built	1961
Designed By	BRBritish Rail or British Railways
Type	Class 09
1993	Rebuilt as 09
2011	Withdrawn
2017	Arrived on SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society
2019	Returned to service
Technical
Length	29ft 3in
Weight	49t
Diesel Locomotives

09107 is an 0-6-0 Class 09 350hp diesel electric shunting locomotive. The Class 09 is similar to the Class 08, of which the SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society has a number of examples, but having different gearing giving an increased top speed of 27.5 mph at the expense of a lower tractive effort. Unlike D4100 which was built as a Class 09, 09107 was one of a batch classified as Class 09/1 to distinguish them as rebuilt from Class 08s.

09107 in service

09107 was built at Horwich Works and entered BRBritish Rail or British Railways service on 2 May 1961. Originally allocated to Laira, it also spent time at Swindon, St Blazey, Penzance, Bristol Bath Road, Ebbw Junction and Eastleigh. It was renumbered from its pre-TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. number of D4013 to 08845 on 31 December 1973. It was stored in September 1992, reinstated the following March and stored again in the May, before being rebuilt and renumbered as 09107 on 23 July 1993. It was withdrawn on 31 May 2011 and sold to European Metal Reprocessing, Kingsbury on 14 September 2011.

09107 in preservation

09107 arrived on the SVRSevern Valley RailwaySVRA:Severn Valley Railway AssociationSVRS:Severn Valley Railway Society on 15 June 2017 from Kingsbury for restoration by a small group of dedicated volunteers at the Diesel Depot. It moved under its own power for the first time on 17 August 2018 and on 18 January 2019 carried out its first shunt for many a year. It carries BRBritish Rail or British Railways Blue livery.

See also

Diesel Locomotives

Links

BR Class 09 on Wikipedia