DVT 82113 (19001) Future

[dmkc]

The always enjoyable YouTube videos from BONESS27001 shows comment that ex -DVT 82113 (19001) which had something of a power unit put into it has been 'abandoned' by its current owner LenzLabs @ Bo'ness

Seems a bit of a waste - Was surreal viewing seeing it travelling along under 'its own steam' as it were!

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[norbitonflyer]

Such is the fate of most test beds. Once it has proved the concept (if indeed it did) it will have served its purpose, and a production version can be built with the equipment better integrated into a practical train, without all the experimenal apparatus.

The "class 614" unit is also seen early on in that video.

 

[AlistairCowell]

Probably binned unless B&KR wants it.

 

[Strathclyder]

Probably binned unless B&KR wants it.

While not strictly accurate - as I'm not aware of them ever working with Mk3 DVTs in service - you could put it next to the 91 they have in the museum as a push-pull train exhibit? Of course as you say, if there was sufficent interest in it being kept at all. Chances are it'll end up getting binned off.

 

[dmkc]

Off to the big scrapyard in the sky going by recent pics etc etc

 

[AlistairCowell]

Any photos?
I guessed that right, 19001 has no further use.

 

[Royston Vasey]

Bit silly wasting a class number on it really. Although not a departmental loco as such (but in a privatised world, who is the "department" anyway) it would have been better given a subclass of Class 97, or better, left officially as a coaching stock vehicle until it needed to move under its own power on the mainline, if ever.

At least it can now be reused!

 

[43096]

Bit silly wasting a class number on it really. Although not a departmental loco as such (but in a privatised world, who is the "department" anyway) it would have been better given a subclass of Class 97, or better, left officially as a coaching stock vehicle until it needed to move under its own power on the mainline, if ever.

There was no class number wasted on it. It has never been mainline registered as 19001.

 

[MickeyN]

It's been taken by road to Dalton metal recycling in Edinburgh

 

[D365]

There was no class number wasted on it. It has never been mainline registered as 19001.

Indeed. I only learned recently that Class 19 was an ’honouary’ designation.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Indeed. I only learned recently that Class 19 was an ’honouary’ designation.

Does that mean it was never formally registered on the Rolling Stock Library ( or whatever that's called these days ) and so they don't need to wait the normal seven years before re-using the number?

 

[43096]

Does that mean it was never formally registered on the Rolling Stock Library ( or whatever that's called these days ) and so they don't need to wait the normal seven years before re-using the number?

Correct. It is still 82113 on the system.