Count to 100 using pictures

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ok, lets just get this over and quick with:

D859 Vanquisher & D864 Zambesi on shed for servicing at the Warships' main base depot, Newton Abbot, 13th August 1968.
(Photo courtesy David Mant )

D864 Zambesi at Bristol Bath Road too:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

SPOILER I only have one more, D870 Zulu (which is also the last of them)./SPOILER

Built in 1957/61, they were all withdrawn by 1972, a pitifully short existence, and why?? Because they were Diesel Hydraulics, and BR had decided by 1967 that they wanted a standard Diesel Electric fleet, so entire Diesel Hydraulic classes, like the 'Warships', the 'Westerns', the 'Hymeks', the class class 22 'Baby Warships' and one or two others were run down, withdrawn and scrapped practically on the spot, and in the days before diesel preservation had really taken off too.

Luckily some survive - 4 Hymeks (out of a fleet of 101), 2 Warships (D821 and D832, out of a fleet of 70 (although the first 32 were class 42, the rest '43. No '43s' survived) and 6 Westerns (out of a fleet of 74)), but not many by today's standards.

Other types simply became extinct because nobody thought they were important, or in one infamous case to preserve a class 22, the loco was scrapped by mistake despite that it was already bought!. BR offered D821 instead.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Some more with a common theme:

Very good.

We are only on 865, I hadn't posted 870 yet, I was merely saying that I would.

Does nobody actually read these things??

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

So, to plug the gap left by Shut up legs.....

D865

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

D866 Zebra:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

D867 Zenith:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

View attachment 139079 Oh dear!
The remains of D868 Zephyr seeing a fate that befell all but three* of the 70 of them in 1971/72. A pathetically short career (see notes below):

Number: D868
Location: BR Swindon Works
Name: Zephyr
Named by: Applied when built
Date applied: 05/61 Date removed: W10/71 Style: 1950s WR
Meaning: Named after Royal Navy ship of same name.

Not many decent pics of this one:

Here it is in better days:

The last Down "Brighton" Sat 4 March 1967. D868 Zephyr waits time at Okehampton with the last 1012 Brighton to Plymouth 1V65, formed of 9 BR MK1 coaches including a Buffet car, in a mixture of SR Green and the then new BR Inter City Blue/Grey livery. Note the water crane still in situ. (4 March 1967 was also the date that the 0110 Waterloo to Plymouth Passenger & News, 1040 Plymouth to Brighton and 1650 Plymouth to Eastleigh ran for the last time, thus ending regular loco hauled services on the former Southern Exeter to Plymouth main line).
Photographer: Tony Hill
Date taken: 04/03/1967


* - Only 2 now survive as D818 Glory was scrapped in 1985.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

D869 'Zest':

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

D870 Zulu, the last of the class:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

..... Who am I kidding? I loved doing that!!

Annyway, so, we are now on 874

@Shut Up Legs posted these earlier, I pointed out his error but I worked to meet it. He then deleted his post (which I hoped he wouldn't), so, here we are.

Besides, I cannot be bothered posting the numbers again, so here they are again, on behalf of him:

 

[tyred]

I have driven a Lamborghini - one of the these

 

[Bazzer]

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I think we missed a number

 

[Bazzer]

 

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