Class 33 'Shredder' 33106 takes the boat train down the legendary Weymouth Quay line 😎
<b>Railtours of the 1980s</b> 
After arrival at Weymouth Town station behind Class 46 Peak 46026 'Leicestershire &amp; Derbyshire Yeomanry' on the 'Class 46 Tribute' railtour, I lost no time in getting down to the Weymouth Quay branch to capture this rare opportunity - a Class 33 taking the Waterloo-Weymouth Quay Boat Train down the branch  :) A sight that has now sadly been consigned to history.
A basher can be seen enjoying the experience in Mark 1 coach S3923.

More on the 'Class 46 Tribute' here: <a href="https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840617_1.htm" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840617_1.htm</a>

<b>Locomotive History</b>
<b>D6519 / 33106</b> entered traffic in August 1960 as D6519 allocated to Hither Green MPD. In April 1966 D6519 was transferred to Eastleigh which would become its home depot for the next twenty three years before a final transfer to Stewarts Lane in February 1989. In March 1967 it received push-pull apparatus and high-level brake pipes and jumper cables and became part of the class 33/1 sub class. 33106 survived in traffic for thirty years until withdrawn in November 1990. Following withdrawal it was broken up by Coopers Metals on site at Eastleigh MPD in September 1992.

<b>Push-pull Class 33s</b> - During the mid 1960’s third-rail electrification was expanding on the Southern Region, however it was not considered to be justified to extend beyond Bournemouth on the South West Main Line, and so in 1966, D6580 was fitted with experimental push-pull apparatus and high-level brake pipes and jumper cables to make it compatible with Southern Region Electric Multiple Unit stock. Tests were carried out on the Oxted Line using a 6-coach rake of unpowered EMU coaches (designated TC, the T standing for Trailer). Following successful completion of trials, D6580 and eighteen other members of the class entered Eastleigh works in 1967 to be converted Class 33/1, fitted with a modified version of the push-pull apparatus (fully compatible with Class 73 Electro-Diesels) and painted in the new BR corporate blue with full yellow ends. With the advent of the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme, these modified locomotives were numbered 33101–33119. At one time class 34 was earmarked for these modified Class 33 locomotives but in the end was never used. 
The above fascinating information courtesy of <a href="/photos/pics-by-john/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">John Woolley Photos</a>  :) 

<b>Class 33</b> - in December 1957 British Railways ordered forty-five Type 3 diesel-electric locomotives from the Birmingham Railway Carriage &amp; Wagon Company (BRCW) for Southern Region duties. They were required as part of the general modernisation resulting from Phase I of the Kent Coast Electrification scheme. The number was later increased to a total of ninety-eight including twelve special ’slim line’ locomotives for use on the width-restricted Tonbridge-Hastings line. Based on the BRCW type 2’s (Class 26/27) of the Scottish Region, the Southern locomotives were more powerful with eight cylinder Sulzer engines and Crompton-Parkinson electrical equipment. All were delivered new to Hither Green MPD, beginning in 1959, and were allocated the numbers D6500-97.

All 86 of the first delivery were built as standard locomotives, numbered D6500 to D6585. Under TOPS they became class 33/0 and the surviving locomotives, excluding the 19 that were converted for push-pull operation (33101 to 33119), were renumbered 33001–33065. The 12 narrow-bodied locomotives were originally numbered D6586 to D6597, and later renumbered 33201 to 33212. More info here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_33" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_33</a>

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. <b>Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration.</b>

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