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Locomotive Details:-
This locomotive is an ex-mines loco of Hudswell-Clarke manufacture, built in 1961, works number 1247. It has six coupled wheels, is eighteen feet long and weighs in at fifteen tons. The engine has a six cylinder Gardner 6LW engine, rated at 100 h.p., with maximum revolutions of 1750 r.p.m.. It last worked for the National Coal Board at Vane Tempest colliery, near Seaham, County Durham, where it was used for training drivers. When the colliery closed, it was bought by Arthur Belshaw and taken to the South Tynedale Railway.The locomotive being surplus to requirements was purchased by a member of the Welsh Highland Railway at Porthmadog, Gwynedd, in North Wales and it arrived there in June 1996. Since then, it has been stripped down to frames, engine and gearbox, steam cleaned, and the old paint removed. The frames and wheels have had four coats of new paint, the engine and gearbox have received two coats each. Work is underway to prepare the engine back to working order with the construction of a new engine cover and cab. When complete the locomotive is intended to be used on works or passenger trains on the South Tynedale Railway.
Above photograph: Hudswell Clarke diesel locomotive DM1247 at the South Tynedale Railway on Sunday 25th March 2007. Photograph by Tom Bell.
A Record of the locomotive rebuild:-
The following record has been compiled from previous issues of �The Journal�, the magazine of the Welsh Highland Railway at Porthmadog, North Wales.In the March 1997 issue, the locomotive had arrived at the Welsh Highland Railway, Porthmadog in June 1996. Since arriving it had been stripped down to the frames, engine and gearbox. It had been steam cleaned (see photograph to right taken by Peter Booth) and the old paint removed. The frames and wheels had had four coats of new paint, with the engine and gearbox receiving two coats each. The next job was to prepare the engine for starting and then to construct a new engine cover and cab.
In the November 1998 issue, there were photos of the front cab windows had been cut out of 3mm thick steel plate with a jigsaw and the supporting pillars for the new bonnet side doors and bonnet roof had been fitted.
In the February 1999 issue, the roof of the locomotive had been completed, the front head lights had been fitted, a bracket for the rear light had been made and a bracket and headlight at the front of the locomotive had been fitted. The main console had been made and fitted. The front and rear cab plates had been completed. One top coat of paint had been applied and rubbed down. With another coat to be applied and then the windows could be fitted.
Dimensions:-
Original dimensions:-Driving wheel diameter: 2 feet 2� inches (or 673 mm).
Engine capacity: 100 h.p., 75kW.
Transmission: Fluid coupling, �Powerflow� gearbox
Maximum engine revolutions = 1750.
Final drive: Jackshaft
Tractive effort: 8,500 pounds approx. or 37.8kN.
Weight: 15 tons
Maximum axle load: 5 tonsLivery:-
Bodywork currently painted in a terracotta livery with red buffer beams and wheels.
Archive photo: A view of Hudswell Clarke DM1247 inside the R.E.D. shed, i.e. the diesel locomotive shed, at the Welsh Highland Railway at Porthmadog in 1998, whilst under going rebuilding of its cab and bodywork. Photograph taken from the �The Journal� the Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) Magazine, No. 127 dated November 1998. Photograph by Peter Booth.
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THE SOUTH TYNEDALE RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY,
Registered Office Address:-
The Railway Station, Alston, Cumbria, CA9 3JB.
Telephone 01434 381696.
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