The British Rail Class 33, also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton, is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives, ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.

Welcome to Cromptons the website of the British Rail Class 33 Diesel Electric Locomotives. Originally known as BRCW Type 3, they were later known as Class 33s, and nicknamed …

Feb 1, 2021 · Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company’s Type 3, better known as the Class 33, or simply the ‘Crompton’. Mark Nicholls recounts the type’s history.

Jul 29, 2012 · The BRCW/Sulzer/CP Type 3s (later Class 33) were not part of the 1956 Modernisation Plan's initial order for 171 (later 174) locomotives. There was a large gap between the Mixed Traffic Type B orders (maximum of 1,250bhp) and the Heavy Duty Type C orders (minimum 2,000bhp).

Class 33 may refer to: , a British class. The following German, passenger train, steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement operated by the :

Around 1973 all locomotives were renumbered in the TOPS scheme, they became Class 33/0 - 33001-33065 (standard), Class 33/1 - 33101-33119 (push-pull), Class33/2 - 33201-33212 (narrow). The class 33/1s were originally to have been Class 34.

The BRCW type 3 Bo-Bo diesel electric locomotives built between 1960 and 1962 were the Southern Region's only native diesel locos, excepting the class 09 shunters, introduced by …

Class 33 Crompton British Railway's Southern Region turned to the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (BRC&WC) to construct sixty-five diesel-electric locomotives in response to the BR modernisation plan of 1955 - these would become the most significant diesel locomotive fleet in the history of the South Eastern Division.

The British Rail Class 33 also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.

Class 33/0 - standard locomotives All 88 of the first delivery were built as standard locomotives. Later with the advent of TOPS these would become class 33/0 and were numbered in the range 33001-33065. Two locomotives did not survive long enough to receive TOPS numbers: D6502.