SDDT

Welcome to
SOUTH DEVON DIESEL TRACTION LTD's
home page!

D7612 rail

We are a small company, formed to preserve, operate & hire out ex B.R. Diesel locomotives, based on the SDR at Buckfastleigh, Devon. We currently own two class 20s: 20 110 (D8110) and 20 118 (D8118), a class 25: D7612 (25 262, 25 901) and a class 33: 33 002 (D6501).

We also have under a long lease from the South Devon Railway Trust the first BR Class 122 'Bubble Car' - 55000 - built 1958.

D7612 8110 & 20 118 33 002 W55000
D7612 At Totnes after working a
'River Rail' Train.

 8110 & 20 118 at Buckfastleigh

 33 002 At Buckfastleigh with
lots of new metal and paint!
9th June2007		 55000 Newly outshopped
at Staverton.



This Website was last updated on 18th July 2010.

33 poster 2010



New 18th July: Our class 25, D7612 is on loan to the Gloucester & Warickshire Railway at the moment. Here is a Picture Gallery of their Diesel Gala, which was held on the 9th, 10th & 11th July:
GWR Gala Gallery

New 30th June: 33 002's "50th Anniversary Running Day" For details, see poster above.



New 15th June: Here is the Picture Gallery of our Summer Diesel Gala, which was held on the 12th & 13th June:
Gala Timetable

New 4th June: Spring work programme and pictures on the :
latest news

New 13th April: Our member "Philsky" gets married and organised a wonderful Railway orientated stag day on the Plym Valley Railway. See the photo gallery Here.



FACTS & FIGURES

For those interested, we have prepared a page for each of our locos, with photographs, some history and a selection of interesting facts and figures:

cl 20 spec

about 20 110

about 20 118

cl 25 spec

about 25901

33 specification

return home

rly mag article

We also own various support vehicles, for details of these visit our
rollingstock

CONTACTING US & USEFUL LINKS

Here you may contact us or go to other related web sites:
Contacts & Links

OUR OTHER PAGES

We strive to Keep you up to date with our news. Here you will find the
latest news

and to view our older news stories, here's our
news archive

Our quarterly magazines can also be viewed by clicking on this
newsletters

We have held various diesel galas in recent years, some pictures of them can be found here:
Gallery Index Page



Driver Experience Loco Driver

Fancy driving a 1000+ hp diesel loco? If so try one of our DRIVER EXPERIENCE days. Click on the image to the left for details.



D2246 37 037 50 002
DDS 04 number D2246 37 037 at Buckfastleigh April 05 50 002 on the PDSR
Courtesy & © Phil Seymour

Also on the South Devon Railway is Class 04 no. D2246, Class 37 No. 37 037 & Class 50 No.50 002 . These are owned by our sister group, the DDS


All pictures are taken by and © myself, Richard Bruford unless otherwise stated.