Class 06 Profile and Models

The British Rail Class 06 is a class of 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical shunters built by Andrew Barclay Sons and Company from 1958 to 1960 for use on the Scottish Region of British Railways. While all technically similar, the locomotives had two different designs for the back of the cab, the first 15 locomotives having three windows, the remaining 20, having two. With a decline in shunting, BR was forced to reduce its shunter fleet in the 1960s and 70s, resulting in mass withdrawals. The first class 06 locomotive to be withdrawn was D2441 in March 1967 and the last was 06002 in September 1981. A single locomotive survives, number 06003. It was transferred to the departmental fleet following withdrawal and renumbered 97804, and used at the Reading Signal Works. After being withdrawn again in 1984, it was sold to Booth's scrapyard in Rotherham  before being saved for preservation by the local South Yorkshire Railway.

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