Hymak

Hymak is TR's main diesel locomotive and the first diesel used and owned by the railway. He is just one of three diesels owned by TR and as well as being the only proper working diesel-hydraulic on Nerland.

Biography
Hymak was built in 1963 for the Western Region of British Railways for mixed traffic duties. He made friends with the older ex-Great Western locomotives he was designed to replace and wished that he could do something about having more steam locomotives preserved instead of scrapped. As part of BR's standardisation with diesel-electric locomotives in the 1970s, Hymak was withdrawn in 1972 and sent to Swindon to be scrapped. Due to TR's need for a newer and more powerful locomotive to assist in the mixed traffic duties as the railway's own fleet of mixed traffic steam locomotives were struggling, Hymak was purchased and became TR's first diesel locomotive.

Livery
Hymak is painted in BR Green.

Basis
Hymak is based off a BR class 35 B-B diesel-hydraulic, mixed-traffic locomotive from the Western Region of British Railways. They were built by Beyer, Peacock & Co. of Manchester to replace the older GWR-designed 4-6-0s as part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan, being built from 1961 to 1964 with 101 delivered. Due to their diesel-hydraulic transmission being "non-standard" by British Rail, which standardised on diesel-electrics, the class was withdrawn from service between 1971 and 1975. Four have been preserved.

Trivia
Hymak's name was created by swapping the letter "e" in the nickname "Hymek" with the letter "a".

Hymak is TR's first ever diesel locomotive.