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[[File: D1062_20120512.jpg |thumb|200px300px|right| D1062 Western Courier]]==D1062 in service==
British Railways (BR) assigned Class 52 to the Type 4 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built between 1961 and 1964 for BR(W). All were given two-word names beginning "Western", hence the type became known as Westerns.
==D1062 in service==
D1062 Western Courier was built at Crewe Works and entered service at London’s Old Oak Common shed in May 1963. D1062 also served at Cardiff Canton, Swansea Landore and Plymouth Laira, and was withdrawn from the latter by BR in 1976 after 1,096,000 miles in service.
In May 1977 D1062 and sister locomotive [[BR Class 52 D1013 Western Ranger|D1013 Western Ranger]] moved to the Paignton & Dartmouth Railway, and following tyre turning at Cardiff Canton depot both arrived on the SVR on 29 September 1978.
Western Courier attended the Rocket 150 celebrations at Rainhill in May 1980, the only privately owned diesel locomotive to do so.
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File:D1062_Western_Courier_at_Rainhill.jpg | Western Courier at Rainhill in 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
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{{As of November 2015| 2016}}, D1062 is in regular service on the SVR. ==Sources==SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition
==See also==
[[Diesel Locomotives]]
==References==
SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition
==Links==
