- Designer: English Electric Company’s Vulcan Foundry
- Built: 1966
- Numbers Carried: D3669, D8188
- Withdrawn: January 1990
- Present Location: The Watercress Line, Hampshire
- Owned By: The Somerset & Dorset Locomotive Company
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D8188 was manufactured by the English Electric Company’s Vulcan Foundry in 1966 as Works No D3669. It commenced service in January 1967 until its withdrawal from BR Service in January 1990. The locomotive underwent a renumbering process, becoming 20188 on 1 January 1973 under the TOPS classification system.
Notably after its BR career, it gained cinematic stardom as D8188 was retrofitted with mock armour for its portrayal as a Russian locomotive in the 1995 James Bond film ‘GoldenEye’ which was shot at the Nene Valley Railway. By August 1995, the locomotive was owned by Waterman Railways until The Somerset & Dorset Locomotive Company, the current owner of the locomotive, was established in 2000 and took ownership of the locomotive.
D8188 was temporarily loaned to the SVR in July 2007 to aid in repair operations after severe storm damage. It saw extensive use in the ensuing months and was later integrated as a permanent member of the SVR fleet in 2008/9. A maintenance period then followed at Washwood Heath in 2015, and the locomotive returned to SVR in February 2016. When it was deemed surplus to requirements at the SVR, D8188 had spells operating on the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway & The Spa Valley Railway. In 2021, alongside sister locomotive D8059, D8188 moved to its current home, The Watercress Line, where the locomotive works along the Hampshire line today.
