AFAIK the Class 66 wrecked at Great Heck was only a few months old when the accident happened, are there any locos/trains that got an even shorter career before they were wrecked/retired? I think one or two Class 37s got very short careers too?
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Shortest-lived loco/train in the UK?
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D1734 only managed a working life of about 8 months
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Not what the OP had in mind, I'm sure, but the opening day on the Snowdon Mountain Railway involved a derailment that wrote off its loco on its first train. Loco was 'Ladas', date 6th April 1896. Never managed a complete round trip.
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No 46202 Princess Anne was officially a 1952 rebuild of the ex-LMS "Turbomotive", but much of it (in particular the frames and cylinders) was brand new. It was wrecked beyond repair in the Harrow crash after just two months.
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I know not UK but think a DR 132 (DB 232) got written off after 6 weeks.
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How about an entire class wipeout ? Class 14 ?
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How long were the 151s in passenger service? I know they spent exponentially longer in store before falling victim to the vandals.
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Amtrak P40 819 was only around 20 days old when it was wrecked in the Big Bayou Canot disaster.
It had served Amtrak for 20 days exactly, in fact: https://meridianspeedway.weebly.com/not-just-another-p40.html
Googling ‘new train wrecked’ showed some even more interestingness. A train derailed carrying brand new Boeing fuselages, which careened down into a fiver (in USA) and another carrying 100’s of Jeep and GM and Chevrolet 4x4’s.. All wrecked!
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On a similar note; Classes 210 or 445/446?
Surprised no one mentioned Class 89. Yes some specific locos due to when they entered service vs when they were taken out might be shorter timeframe wise, but considering this particular loco; I guess the running costs were too dire to let it run regularly amongst the Intercity 225s and Intercity 125s, hence why it’s had a number of restorations, I wonder if LSL could pluck it up and keep it amongst the ‘Intercity’ liveried locos they now have.
It kind of reminded me of an HST power car with the way the yellow roof appeared as well as the centralised drivers’ window.
It kind of reminded me of an HST power car with the way the yellow roof appeared as well as the centralised drivers’ window.
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To be fair despite being a one-off, the privatised railway brought it back into service for a good few years before another catastrophic failure.
It's now nearing the end of a long restoration project.
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The SuperClayton did hardly anything.
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Presumably the losers at the Rainhill trials didn't last very long
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Removed (duplicate of comment above).
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The APT?
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One of the driving cars of 317301 was written off in a shunting accident before even entering service!
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How long was the class 140 in service for? Not sure if it actually entered service?
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Careered into a river, perhaps? I wonder if a Boeing forum somewhere has this incident in one of its threads, mentioning a new loco in the post?!
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I dont believe the Super Clayton was taken into BR stock
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