LMS diesel shunters 7059-7068

LMS diesel shunters 7059 to 7068 were ten 0-6-0 diesel-electric shunting locomotives built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1936 for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, with maker's numbers D54 to D63. Each had an Armstrong-Sulzer 6LTD22 diesel engine rated at 350 bhp at 875 rpm, driving a single Crompton Parkinson traction motor through double reduction gears and jackshafts. In appearance they resembled the LMS 7080 to 7119 series that became British Rail Class D3/7, although the internal equipment was different. They started work in 1936, with 7059 to 7063 allocated to Crewe South and 7064 to 7068 to Kingmoor. In 1940 and 1941 the War Department requisitioned all ten, and some were sent to France, the Netherlands, Belgium or Egypt and renumbered. Several later passed to the Belgian national railways, and two of the Egyptian group to Egyptian State Railways.