The Manchester Ship Canal Company maintained a huge railway network, which at it's peak contained over 370km of track and operated seventy-five locomotives. D1199 was one of those locomotives, built for the MSC Railway in 1960 by Hudswell Clarke. It was just one of a number of locomotives built for the MSC Railway by the company [1] and carried the number E1 (or MSC Engineers No. 1). Due to the tight radiuses of the track, typical of many an industrial railway, the locomotive had a small wheelbase.
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| E1 at Peak Rail |
| Information |
| Number built: |
1 |
| Built: |
1960 |
| Builder: |
Hudswell Clarke |
| Motor: |
Gardner 8L3 diesel |
| Power: |
204 hp (150 kW) |
| Wheel arrangement: |
0-6-0DM |
The MSC network began to close down in the late 1960s and 1970s though the last operational section was not closed until 2009. E1 however entered preservation before that, first being preserved at Bury and in recent years at Peak Rail.
[1] Ray King, British Industrial Diesel Locomotives (Traction & Rolling Stock Advertiser, 2006) p. 26
