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Originally Posted by 60159
The NB type 2's may well have been nicknamed "Sadeyes" - not one I know but seems appropriate. My old ian Allan ABC reveals underlinings under nearly every one from D6100 to D6157 and I applied little red dots to those which had pulled a train on which I'd been on. (10 little red dots!) They became class 29's but I can't really recall in words how they sounded other than describing it as "uninteresting"!
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Shame you didn't have your tape recorder. A little research shows that the original 21's had Man engines these proved unreliable and were re engined with Paxman Ventura V12's and renumbered 29's. There were 20 built, all sadly scrapped.
There was a similar looking deisel hydraulic on the western region known as class 22's they had Man engines and proved more reliable. Again all were scrapped, although one was to be preserved but Swindon Works cut it up by mistake !
They looked like quirky little engines, i wonder if anyone recorded them in action, sight and sound.