page_title: List of rolling stock preserved on the South Devon Railway
section_title: Operational
hierarchical_section_title: List of rolling stock preserved on the South Devon Railway / Locomotives / Main line diesels / Operational
caption_attribution_description: English: Class 37 D6737 shunting wagons at Buckfastleigh, getting them ready for some engineering work that was scheduled for the next day.
context_page_description: The South Devon Railway is a heritage railway in Devon, England. The rolling stock preserved on the South Devon Railway includes many examples of steam locomotives typical of the Great Western Railway types that would have once worked on the line, other types of steam locomotives, and a number of diesel locomotives. The engine shed is at Buckfastleigh.
  As well as locomotives in service, there are others undergoing overhaul or restoration, or which are displayed in non-working condition. The most significant one of these is Tiny a South Devon Railway 0-4-0vb shunting locomotive on display in the museum at Buckfastleigh station. This is the only original 7 ft ¹⁄₄ in broad gauge locomotive still in existence in the United Kingdom.
  There are a number of historic coaches in use including two "GWR Super Saloons", coaches once used in the Royal Train, and some auto coaches that were used on small branch lines such as this.
context_section_description: D6737 – Class 37 Co-Co
  The Class 37s are medium sized locomotives equally at home pulling freight or passenger trains. In common with many of these locomotives, it was based on the Eastern Region when it was built in 1962. 6737 became 37037 in February 1974. In the 1980s it moved to Scotland and, from 1986 until 1992 it carried the name Gartcosh. 1993 saw it transferred to the south west and it worked freight trains from Bristol Bath Road. In 1999 English Welsh & Scottish used it on engineering trains in France. After it was withdrawn in 2003 it was sold to the Harry Needle Railroad Company who sold it on to the South Devon Diesel Society at Buckfastleigh in 2004. It is running in BR green livery.
  8110 – Class 20 Bo-Bo
  Class 20s are low-powered, single-cabbed freight locomotives which usually work coupled in pairs bonnet-to-bonnet. D8110 was delivered to Eastfield in January 1962 as D8110. It was still working in Scotland when renumbered 20110 in December 1973. In 1986 it moved to Tinsley depot in Sheffield and was withdrawn from Bescot in September 1990. The following year it was purchased for preservation and moved to Buckfastleigh. In 1993 it spent a short while working engineering trains on the Metropolitan line of London Transport.
  A second Class 20, D8118 (20118) was also at Buckfastleigh alongside D8110 for a number of years, but this has now moved elsewhere.
  D7612 – Class 25 Bo-Bo
  Three Class 25s are based at Buckfastleigh. Some of the class were based at Laira in the 1970s for working china clay trains; they superseded Class 22 diesel-hydraulics and were themselves later replaced by the larger Class 37s.
  D7612 was delivered new to Glasgow Eastfield depot in April 1966 but moved south into England within a few months, eventually spending many years at Bescot TMD where it was renumbered 25262 in March 1974. In 1985 it went to Carlisle Kingmoor TMD and was renumbered again to 25901, which identified it as one of a pool of twelve locomotives allocated to a special pool for working chemical traffic, until withdrawn in March 1987. It was sold to Harry Needle Railroad Company who sold it in 1989 for preservation on the East Lancashire Railway. In 1999 it was sold again and moved to Buckfastleigh.
  33002 Sea King – Class 33 Bo-Bo
  The Class 33 was the Southern Region equivalent to the Class 37 and were once a familiar sight in Devon, working Southern Region passenger and freight trains into Exeter St Davids.. D6501 was delivered to Hither Green TMD in February 1960 but moved to Eastleigh in 1965 where it made its home for many years. It was renumbered to 33002 in February 1974 and, in November 1991, was named after the Sea King helicopter. It arrived at Buckfastleigh in July 2008
caption: D6737
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