British Rail Class 22

The British Rail Class 22, nicknamed the Baby Warship, was a class of 58 diesel-hydraulic locomotives designed for the Western Region of British Railways and built by the North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow. Numbered D6300 to D6357, the first entered traffic in 1959 and deliveries continued until 1962. They looked much like the Class 21 diesel-electrics but were almost five feet shorter, and their internal equipment echoed the larger Warship locomotives. Based at Bristol Bath Road, Laira, Newton Abbot and Old Oak Common, most worked local passenger and freight trains in the West of England. Early engine and transmission faults were repaired by the builder under contract, and by the mid 1960s availability had passed 85 percent. Withdrawals began in 1967 and ended on 1 January 1972.