D1015 Western Champion
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Based at Severn Valley Railway.
Built on 21st January 1963 at Swindon.
Withdrawn from service on 13th December 1976.
D1015 hauled the return working of Winston Churchill's funeral train in 1965.
D1015 was purchased by the Diesel Traction Group in January 1980 after which it took several years to restore.
It arrived on the Severn Valley Railway in February 2001.
It is mainline certified, its first railtour being from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads and Gloucester on 23rd February 2002.
Privately owned.
Painted in BR Blue livery with full yellow ends.
Currently operational & mainline certified.