SDDT

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

7535 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 three class 25s: D7612 (25 262, 25 901), D7541 (25 191), D7535 (25 185) and a class 33: D6501 (33 002).

D7612 & D7541 D6501 D7535 D7541
D7612 at Totnes
August 2006

D6501 Near Hood Bridge
Resplendant in new Green Paint!
Aug 2014 ©P.Burrow
D7535 On hire to Swanage.
12th May 2019

D7541 As first Arrived.
Although not finished looks different now!
May 2011

We now have a Facebook page, where you can see our latest news and lots of pics:
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This Website was last updated on 10th March 2020.

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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 25 spec

about 25901

33 specification

return home

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

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 D6737 at Caddaford June 08 50 002 on the PDSR
Courtesy & © Phil Seymour

Also on the South Devon Railway is Class 09 No. 09 010 (D3721), owned by the South Devon Railway Trust.   Class 04 no. D2246, Class 37 No. D6737 (37 037) & Class 50 No.50 002 (D402) . These three are owned by our sister group, the DDS


The SDR Trust own D3721/09 010 which is currently operational.

Class 09 D3721
D3721 (09 010) at Buckfastleigh.

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

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