Unwanted Western Warships

British Railway's first Type 4 diesel - and like many firsts, not a great success. Though the Western lads down at Plymouth would have a thing or two to say about that! Another A1A-A1A, but this time the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow were at fault - The D600s. Better known, as the A1A Warships.
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Images of the OO gauge Kernow D600 courtesy of @old_vera
Line drawing of a D600 - original BTC drawing
Photograph of Class 40s dismantled at Swindon by Jim - 40175 & 40010 Swindon Works 28.10.82, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikime...
Photograph of D601 'Ark Royal' (thumbnail) by Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikime...
Photograph of D805 at Ealing Broadway by Barry Lewis - Benbow Through The BroadwayUploaded by Oxyman, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikime...
Still of LMS 10000 and 10001 on an express - The copyright of the lecture is the property of the British Transport Commission. Frames 16 and 24 are reproduced by courtesy of Aerofilms Ltd. - nicwhe8.freehos..., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
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[@Proper_Chuffed]

Bloody brilliant once again, thoroughly enjoyed this one. Had no idea there was ANOTHER warship besides the 43's... very informative and a mint model mate.

[@lukemendel8197]

The nickname of Warship was also given to the class 42. The class 43 was the lemon version of the 42s built by NBL. The class 42 Warship is the basis of Diesel 10.

[@niceaardvark4899]

As a trainspotter I remember being blown away at the sight of the D600 Warships en route to Paddington in the early 60s. I didn't know they were underpowered and all the rest of it, they were just impressive to look at.

[@chrislyon7147]

Excellent analysis.

[@sashathetankengine1970]

There were actually two Class 41s (D600s) sent to Barry Scrapyard after withdrawal: Active and Royal Ark. And while Active was cut up in 1970, Royal Ark survived up until 1980. It was considered for preservation, but was in bad condition so no movements went forward and the loco was cut up when Barry was experiencing a shortage of wagons. Shame…

[@brianwillson9567]

Although a fine record with steam , nothing any good came from North British diesel or electric.

[@richardmarshall4322]

You mean Ark Royal

[@sashathetankengine1970]

@@richardmarshall4322 yes

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

The Class 41 was also ordered in order to compare performance against the Class 40. The Western Region insisted on some Type 4s with hydraulic transmissions and was also pressing for stessed skin construction, which the BTC opposed. The Western Region got both. NBL was struggling to get the axle load down to 20tons as dictated by the BTC and actually wanted a C-C bogie arrangement, but in 1955 no-one had worked out how to do this and so the A1A-A1A wheel arrangement was chosen. This axle load wax the reason the Class 40 and the Peaks had a 1Co-Co1 wheel arrangement.

[@iana6713]

"...and here Toyota are pretending to be all modern with their hybrids!" Nicely said! Enjoyed seeing that footage of the Class 20 - one of those hauled the very last passenger train up the line I used to live beside, which was a casualty of the Beeching Axe and is now a footpath.

[@patricksmodels]

That was a very interesting and well made video. Cheers from a fellow Scot in Italy.

[@DennisLora2001]

Fantastic story Flying Scott and I guess that some British diesel engines were not good enough for what they were made for 1:27

[@TrevortheTrainFan]

Interesting 🧐. Who knew Diesel 10 would be an unwanted engine. I guess that’s why Britt Allcroft chose the warship as Diesel 10’s basis. But I’m only exaggerating.

[@FluidLoneknight]

Diesel 10 was a class 42 (Swindon)/43(North British) warship not a North British D600 warship which were Class 41s

[@TrevortheTrainFan]

@@FluidLoneknight Oops, 😅 sorry 😣!!

[@BlackMan12331]

Diesel 10 was actually suppose to be a class 41 and the original story was suppose to be him based off of ark royal/D601 the class 41 that rotted away at barry scrapyard until 1980, but the storyline for this was to scary since he was suppose to sound and act even more scary and aggressive since he was originally based on the warship that languished at barry for so long, so they decided to up it up a notch and made him into a class 42 and with a different voice actor to not make it to scary for children

[@Oswaldo.]

Interesting video! Though I really think you could've gone into more detail of the DB v200s.