26002/D5302
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Entered
service 02/10/58
Renumbered 25/05/74
Last
overhaul 04/86 G & HGR
Withdrawn 09/10/92
Depots
34B (Hornsey) 02/10/58 (new)
64B
(Haymarket) 04/60
ED (Eastfield) 16/05/88
IS (Inverness) 23/08/92
Withdrawn 09/10/92
Sectors
04/87 FXX
07/87 FEGB
01/89 FEPE
06/91 DCHA
03/92 RAJE
10/92 RFJX
FXX Freight/General
FEGB Coal/Haymarket
FEPE Coal/Haymarket
DCHA ScotRail Departmental Civil Engineer
RAJE Regional Infrastructure 26 IS
Notes
OMO
fitted 05/86
Liveries
Original green;
green plus small yellow warning panel; BR blue; red stripe Railfreight
(09/87); Trainload Coal; civil engineer's Dutch; preserved green (faded)
Storage
and disposal
Dumped at Inverness following withdrawal. 26002
was the first of the 7 slow speed control 26s to be withdrawn. Now
preserved on the Strathspey Railway at Aviemore as D5302.
Last
years
18/08/88
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
22/08/88
26002+26024
1M47 1744 Waverley to Carstairs and 1B25 1844 Carstairs to Waverley. 47500
had blown up, so the first service train pair of the year produced. Because
of a multi fault, they were driven in tandem.
08/09/88
Conflicting gen has 002 on either the 1B23 1820 Carstairs to Waverley
or the 1858 Carstairs to Waverley.
13/10/88
26002 and 26040 both did Carstairs portions.
26/10/88
2150 Waverley to Carstairs; from Slateford Junction to Carstairs after
the 47 blew up.
02/11/88
26002+37262
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
04/05/89
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
Sunday 12/05/91
26002 was released from Glasgow Works after traction motor repairs.
Wednesday 22/05/91
26002 6E84 Millerhill to Tyne Yard, piloting a 56 on a MGR.
Friday 26/07/91
26006 and 26007 were transferred from FEPE to DCHB, leaving Trainload
Coal workings without Class 26s for the first time in 25 years... 26007
was the last sector-allocated engine to work a coal train on the day before;
however, 26002 (DCHA spent a week at the end of August working to Cockenzie
off Millerhill.
Saturday 07/09/91
26001+26002
1010 Waverley to Inverness. 26002 is a last-minute swap for 26003, which
had been on special tests the night before at Eastfield. However, 002
blows up leaving Haymarket with the engine overspeed trip and a multi
fault... and 001 continues to Perth, where both are removed for 37153.
Exit 6LDA!
Wednesday 02/10/91
Shortlived 'Father of the Class' 26028 was withdrawn at 0800, leaving
the fleet strength at 23 and only 26014, 26024 and 26042 in blue. Its
last train was the 8B78 0447 Mossend to Millerhill departmental on the
1st. Later that day it ran light to Eastfield and was shut down. It then
lost two of its buffers to collision-damaged 26002.
Friday 18/10/91
26002 was involved in a head-on collision with several ballast wagons
at Barassie PWD. It was towed to Eastfield on Tuesday 22nd, at a maximum
speed of 25mph. Repairs were authorised to buffer beams and cab supports.
Thursday 20/02/92
26002 emerges from Eastfield after its collision repairs in the new Dutch
livery. However, the loco was still having problems with its engine speed
trip faults, and failed on 12/03/92 at Dalmuir while working Dumbarton
to Cadder with some empty ballast wagons.
Wednesday 27/05/92
26002+26003 work to Aberdeen on a ballast from Perth Yard.
Saturday
12/09/92
26002+26001+26042
1H11 Waverley to Inverness; from Perth to Aviemore. 26002's final passenger
working.
Friday 09/10/92
26002, 26014, 26024 and 26042 were withdrawn in the afternoon.
26002 had long been
living on borrowed time and was fortunate to escape withdrawal after its
collison at Barassie. It spent much of 1992 sidelined at Eastfield or
Inverness with various defects of engine, traction motors and turbo. After
002 was removed from the triple header on Saturday 12/09/92, it was taken
to Inverness and examined. A new turbo was fitted, but, while on test,
the diagnosis was switched to the power unit being faulty. Engine repairs
weren't sanctioned, and 002 was the first xos 26 to be withdrawn and the
first Dutch-liveried 26 to go too.