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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.
All but two of the class were fitted with pairs of the 450hp Paxman 6ZHXL 6-cylinder horizontal engines designed for (but never used in) in railcars. Three variations of the class were built:
*Class 17/1 (Clayton locomotives, with GEC generator)
*Class 17/2 (two locomotives), with Rolls Royce engines
