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The Diesel is a rude and conceited diesel engine.

Product Description[]

1997 Collector Card[]

Personality[]

A snooty type of chap. Like all diesels, he thinks he knows it all, which gets up every steam engine's funnel. Despite his immense power, he soon finds out that nothing chuffs like a chuff chuff chuffs!

Historical Note[]

The Diesel is based on a 2-Co-Co-2 Diesel built by English Electric in 1960, as one of the first production line diesels for main line passenger use. The series of over 200 engines were phased out of service in the 1980's, though 6 were retained for freight use in the building of the Channel Tunnel.

Gallery[]

Class 40

Collector card

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