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Clayton Class 17 Bo-Bo D8568

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|wheels = Bo-Bo
|power = Diesel Electric
|status = Operational, based on Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway
|locono = D8568
|othernos = 8568
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 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 visited from 2020 to 2022 for repaint into BR blue livery, bodywork attention and work on the Paxman engines<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blsep20 Branch Lines newsletter, September 2020] (Retrieved 29 August 2020)</ref>.
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D8568_20150930.jpg|D8568 passing Highley, September 2015
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