No.YD43

YD43 was the first diesel locomotive to arrive at the Colne Valley Railway. It was built by Ruston and Hornsby in 1943 and was delivered new to the Admiralty at Lydney in Gloucestershire. It also worked at Lydney tin plate works, the Austin Motor Co. at Crofton Hackett, Chatham dockyard and Wrabness Admiralty storage depot before moving to Brown and Tawse Ltd., West Horndon, Essex, in 1966. Brown and Tawse Ltd. kindly donated YD43 to the Colne Valley Railway in 1979 and it was a veteran of many early track laying operations.