Doncaster works

" Flying Scot " at the Doncaster plant in July 2003

Shildik Doncaster Plant

Doncaster Works (from the English - “ Doncaster Plant ”) is a plant located in the city of Doncaster , South Yorkshire , England .

The Great Northern Railway was built in 1853 to replace the plants in Boston and Peterborough . Until 1867, the company carried out only repairs and maintenance of rolling stock.

In 1866, Patrick Stirling was appointed the locomotive superintendent of the plant. In 1886, the plant launched the first steam locomotive, which received serial number 875. At the same time, the construction of new cars began: in 1873 the first sleeping cars appeared, in 1879 - the first restaurant cars in the UK , and in 1882 the first compartment car .

Among the locomotives produced by the factories were the GNR Stirling 4-2-2 Stirling; GNR Class C1 Iwatt ; LNER Class A1 / A3 Grezli , including the world famous “ Flying Scot ”, the first locomotive to reach 100 mph and uninterrupted transportation of passengers from Kings Cross Station in London to Waverly Station in Edinburgh; and the LNER Class A4 Grezli, including the world's fastest Mallard steam engine , reaching 126 mph on July 3, 1938. The locomotives of the plant pulled the Flying Scot , Silver Anniversary , Coronation and Elizabethan express trains. For the latter, cars were also built at the Doncaster Plant.

The plant continued the construction of all types of rolling stock. During the Second World War , like other factories, he carried out military orders, producing, among other things, Horsa gliders for airborne landing for landing in Normandy . In 1940, a fire destroyed the old car building workshop. The new building was built in 1949, taking into account the construction of steel cars for British Railways .

In 1957, BR Standard Class 4 No. 76114 emerged from the gates of the plant, the last of more than 2,000 locomotives built ^[1] . The production of wagons ceased in 1962, but the plant was modernized: a workshop for the repair of diesel locomotives appeared. Under the direction of British Rail Engineering Limited, diesel shunting locomotives and electric locomotives for the 25 kV network, as well as Class 56 and Class 58 diesel-electric locomotives, were built here.

In 2007, Bombardier Transportation closed its owned plant ^{[2] [3]} . In early 2008, the main workshop for the repair of locomotives in the Krimpsal area was demolished, and the territory was transferred for residential development. Wabtec Rail continues to modernize passenger rolling stock in the Doncaster territory ^[4] .