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D1015 Western Champion was built at BR’s Swindon works and entered service at Cardiff Canton in January 1963. Other allocations included London Old Oak Common, Swansea Landore and Plymouth Laira, where the locomotive was withdrawn by BR in December 1976 after accumulating 1,296,000 miles in service.<ref>[http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=D&id=1015&loco=1015 BR Database]</ref>
==D1062 D1015 in preservation==
In 1980 D1015 became the third locomotive to be acquired by the DTG, which already owned SVR residents [[BR Class 42 D821 Greyhound | D821 Greyhound]] and [[BR Class 35 D7029 | Hymek D7029]].<ref>[http://www.westernchampion.co.uk/about.php westernchampion.co.uk About Us]</ref> D1015 achieved main line certification in 2002, since which it has hauled rail tours as far as Penzance in the south and Kyle of Lochalsh in the north.