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Beyer Peacock order
No. 1715 WP No. 7980 Bo-Bo Diesel Hydraulic Locomotive supplied
to British Railways ,
Western Region in 1962 and now working on the preserved East
Lancashire Railway. |
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Alongside Garratts, the firm
continued to build ordinary steam locomotives which included
the same improvements in design as their double-ended counterparts
but continual technical improvements in diesel engine design
and changes in fashion made steam locomotives obsolete and no
more orders for steam engines were received after 1958. The firm
turned to building diesel engines. Except for a few industrial
locomotives, all their diesel engines were sold to British Railways.
101 diesel hydraulic engines of Beyer, Peacock’s own design
were sold to the Western Region, but then British Railways decided
to buy only diesel electric types. Beyer, Peacock continued to
build diesel electrics for British Railways, but as this was
becoming increasingly uneconomic, Gorton Foundry was closed in
1966. |
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Taken from A Short
History of Beyer, Peacock by Dr. R.L. Hills |
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