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== D8568 in BR service ==The loco spent all of its working life in Scotland where it was delivered on 6 January 1964, to Haymarket, moving to Polmadie on 28 September 1968. It remained operating at this depot until it was withdrawn from service on 6 October 1971.<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=class&id=17&type=D&page=alloc BR database] (Reterieved 4 August 2019)</ref>
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'''Clayton Class 17 D8568''' is the only surviving example of the Clayton Type 1s which numbered 117 in total. The locomotive is based at the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway and is used during the running season and at special events. It is owned by the [[Diesel Traction Group]]. It was [[Diesel Locomotives hired by the SVR|hired by the SVR]] from May to September 2017 and has also attended that year's a number of [[Diesel Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas|Diesel galagalas]], having previously visited in 1998 and 2015. A further visit is announced for 2019.
== D8568 in BR service ==
Intended by British Railways as the standard Type 1 for the railway system, supplanting the EE type 1 (later class 20), poor reliability meant withdrawals began as early as 1968, when some members were just four years old. Although the Class was allocated a [[TOPS codes|TOPS code]], none of the locomotives survived long enough for renumbering.
The Class was equipped for multiple working with 'Red Diamond' (Class 17/3: 'Blue Star') locomotives. Although D8568 is the unique survivor one of each sub-class 17/1 (8521) and 17/3 (8598) survived into BR Departmental service at Derby Research Centre until 1978.<ref>[https://www.railuk.info/diesel/getclass.php?id=69 Railuk.info] (Retrieved 4 August 2019)</ref>
== D8568 in industrial service ==
[[File: D8568_20150930.jpg|thumb|300px|right|D8568 passing Highley, September 2015]]Purchased by the DTG it left Clitheroe on 9 February 1983 for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, returning to traffic 22 April 1989. On 25 April 1992 it arrived at its present home on the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.
As it is owned by the Diesel Traction Group, which has other locomotives based on the SVR, it is has been a visitor for [[Diesel Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas|galas]], first in 1998 and several times from 2015. It also may visit for repairs, and arrived in January 2020 for just such work.
==See also==
