Chinnor railway, class 17 diesel loco
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chinnor railway, class 17 diesel loco by Robert Eva as part of the Geograph project.
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Chinnor railway, class 17 diesel loco
Image: © Robert Eva Taken: 11 May 2017
This is the only surviving example of a class 17 (Clayton) diesel locomotive. One of the least successful designs ever to appear in the British Railways modernisation period of the early sixties. Rather typically, it appears to have failed, and is being shunted back towards the locomotive shed.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.697888
Longitude
-0.906812