GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Budbrook and Warwick Cold Store: gwrw2170

A British Railways Sulzer Type 4 Bo-Bo diesel locomotive is seen on an up permanent way train in September 1966 passing Budbrook signal box. The second man seems to be checking something as he is leaning out and looking backwards. A class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 were built at Crewe Works and Brush's Falcon Works, Loughborough between 1962 and 1968, which made them the most numerous class of British mainline diesel locomotive. They were built to fulfill the stated aim of the British Transport Commission (BTC) to completely remove steam locomotives from British Rail by a target date of 1968. BTC therefore required a large number of lightweight Type 4 locomotives producing at least 2,500 bhp but with an axle load of no more than 19 long tons.

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