This was an early morning shunt by British Railways 0-4-0 Shunting locomotive, No.D2767 on the last day of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railways Santa Steam Trains in December 2018.
This locomotive represents NBL's late production of diesel locomotives for British Railways, the last time that Scotland's railway builders supplied new locomotives to the British Railways market. It has a MAN engine and a Voith hydraulic transmission, German designs that NBL built under licence.

It entered traffic in 1960 and lasted only 7 years before withdrawal. This design (72 were built for BR) was successful, but the locomotives met the same fate as many small diesel locomotives by other manufacturers as the railway system contracted rapidly in the late 1960s.

The locomotive spent its entire short BR working life allocated to Eastfield depot. After withdrawal, four of this type of shunter were bought by Andrew Barclays of Kilmarnock for conversion to industrial specification. This locomotive was sold by Barclays to Burmah Oil and was delivered to their refinery at Ellesmere Port in 1969. It was used there for 12 years until 1981, by which time it had run less than 4,000 miles. Purchased by SRPS from a private owner, with grant support from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

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