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Diesel Traction Group

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==Structure==
DTG Limited is a private limited company number 05012555 incorporated on 12 January 2004.<ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06524306 Companies House] (retrieved 5 January 2017)</ref> DTG Limited oversees the running of [[BR Class 52 D1015 Western Champion | D1015 Western Champion]]. To allow the DTG to operate in today's financially demanding world it formed a wholly owned trading subsidiary, DTG Trading Limited.<ref>Financial Statements for the year ending 31 December 2015</ref> <ref>[http://www.westernchampion.co.uk/about.php 'About Us', DTG website] (Retrieved 17 November 2018)</ref> DTG Trading Limited is a shareholder in [[Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) PLC#Notable_shareholdings|SVR(H)]].
Membership to the group is by purchasing shares, when they become available, in a locomotive. The group therefore has a very low turnover of members. It operates a non-profit system whereby should a locomotive later be sold the mmember is returned only the face value of their original share. In January 2017 the Group offered new shares to raise funds for a replacement engine for [[BR Class 52 D1015 Western Champion | D1015 Western Champion]].<ref>SVRLive</ref> This was successful and the appeal closed the following month.<ref>[http://www.westernchampion.co.uk/index.php D1015 ENGINE APPEAL - update 11th February, DTG website] (retrieved 30 March 2017)</ref>
==Locomotives==
*[[BR Class 52 D1015 Western Champion | D1015 Western Champion]]: BR Class 52 ‘Western’ (based at SVR)
*D8568: BR Class 17 ‘Clayton Type 1’ (based at Chinnor & Princes Risborough)
 
D8568, and before it became resident D1015, periodically visited the SVR for [[Diesel Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas | Diesel Galas]] or attention from the DTG Engineering Staff.
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File: Bewdley - D8568 arriving from Kidderminster.JPG| D8568 in 2015
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D8568, and before it became resident D1015, periodically visited the SVR for [[Diesel Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas | Diesel Galas]] or attention from the DTG Engineering Staff.
==Mainline operations==
<nowiki>*</nowiki>The Group's main line operations are carried out in conjunction with Pathfinder Tours and Vintage Trains (Tyseley).<ref>DTG web site</ref>
 
==Other activity==
The DTG regularly offers assistance and advice to other locomotive owning groups. They have helped maintain [[BR Class 27 D5410]] at the SVR on behalf of the owner, Sandwell Council.
 
The DTG also supported the [[Diesel Depot]].
==See also==
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