British Rail Class 14

The British Rail Class 14 was a class of 56 small 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built at Swindon Works in 1964 and 1965, numbered D9500 to D9555 and nicknamed the Teddy Bears. Twenty-six were first ordered in January 1963, and the order was enlarged to 56 before work began. Each had a Paxman six-cylinder Ventura engine producing 650 brake horsepower, a Voith hydraulic transmission and an offset cab with a bonnet at each end, and was meant for trip freight and yard shunting. Much of that work vanished with the Beeching cuts, so British Railways began disposing of them in 1968 and the whole class had been sold or scrapped by the end of 1970, though many were later preserved. D9555 was the last locomotive built at Swindon Works for British Railways.