DB&A 42045 Class

The 42045 Class is a class of 0-6-0 Tank Engine built for short haul, light railway, shunting and other industrial uses. The class was built between 1928 and 1951, initially with side tanks but these were changed for pannier tanks for the Railway Operating Division in 1940 until the class ceased production in 1951.
  The first of the class (DB&A Works № 1099 / 1928) was built for the contractor Boyce & Beck to replace two warn out locomotives; a Peckett B1 0-6-0ST and a Manning Wardle F Class 0-4-0ST. 1099 was supplied to them and received the number 26. Boyce and Beck ordered five more locomotives to the same design later the same year. The success of these six locomotives lead Dai Bowen & Allaway to advertise the class as one of their four standard designs in 1929, they then became officially known as the 42045 class. In 1929, the first locomotive for passenger use was built, Works № 1112 was fitted with air brakes and was sent to the Blackley Railway where she worked until the railway closed in 1958.
  1931 saw a total of 26 locomotives built, this was the largest ammount built in one year until WW2. Most of the locomotives went onto work at collieries but three went to Edward Barton & Associates, Contractors for use on the Royal Bank of Etorea & Customs House Railway and then on two other contracts before the three were sold. Two further went to Vickers & Hazelton of Tarnmouth, this firm was contracted by the South Etorea & North Sea Coast Railway to shunt the docks at Tarnmouth. This continued until the firm was taken over by the Etorean National Railways including their seven locomotives. DB&A Works № 1137 - 1139 became ENR №s 50126 - 50128.   Over 120 locomotives of the 42045 class were built, they were most common on industrial lines but (as mentioned above) were also capable of pulling passenger trains. This was most commonplace during the Second World War when the ROD leant eight of their locomotives to the ENR for use on evacuation trains. The ROD locomotives differed from the ones built before August 1940 as their construction needed to be simplified. This included welding in place of riveting (where possible), steel fireboxes in place of copper and the side tanks were exchanged for pannier tanks. Some fittings (i. e. copper chimney caps) were exchanged for blackend steel. This "Austerity" design continued to be produced until 1951 with the last three going to a Military Railway serving a submarine base in North East Etorea.   During the war, the 48 ROD owned 42045 class were used in Western Europe, North Africa and in the Middle East with losses totalling 16 locomotives. Most of the 32 surviving locomotives were used temporarily by the ROD from 1945 to aid in the reconstruction of Europe (including Etorea) before the last returned home in 1947. From here they were either sold to private buyers or kept by the ROD / Ministry of Defence for their various military railways.   The class continued ceased production in 1951 but continued working well into the 1980s when the last of the class was withdrawn by the Associated Eyreshire Slate Quarries and purchased for preservation. Locomotives began to be scrapped in 1942 when the first three were destroyed during the conflict, scrapping of the locomotives continued until 1998 when the remains of Works № 1587 / 1949 and a unknown sister engine were scrapped after the majority of their parts were used to build a tender locomotive as a stand - in for Donald from the Railway Series by the Rev. W Awdry. Most of the parts originate from 1587, the sister locomotive was purhcased for spares from Pickerill's Yard in late 1987. She remains in her new tender engine state even though the Petunia Line has ceased "Day out with Thomas" events after the 2020 Covid - 19 pandemic.     Preserved Locomotives:

Works Number:	Original User:	Current Name:	Current Number:	Status & Location:	Livery:
1099 / 1928	Boyce & Beck Railway Contractors №26	N/A	№26	Awaiting Overhaul, Moorington Railway Museum	Boyce & Beck Lined Grey
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1112 / 1929	Blackley Railway №4	N/A	№4
1148 / 1930	Midnight Oil Co. №4	"Kate"	№4	Private Site, Unknown	Unknown
/	Royston Opencast Colliery №11, UCC OE Royston Colliery №11	N/A	№11	Operational, Southholm & Dunfield Railway
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/ 1937	Associated Eyreshire Slate Quarries №5	"Sir Ivor E. Durant"	№5	Operational, () Railway	AESQ Green with Red & White striped ends (wasp stripes) and white lining.
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/	Kenkeld Colliery №2, UCC Kenkeld №2
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/ 1942	ROD №4302, Claybourne Military Railway №99	"Napoleon"	№99	Operational, Liss Valley Railway	Claybourne Military Railway Lined Maroon
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1587 / 1949	UCC Paignton Colliery №6, UCC OE Kilbaun Colliery №14	"Pip" / "Pippa" (unofficial - nickname given by volunteers)	№1587	Operational, Petunia Line	Etorean Highland Railway Chocolate Brown (fictional)
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