Modern traction on the Llangollen railway

D5310 a class 26 Diesel locomotive in operation on the Llangollen railway in Wales

The British Rail Class 26 diesel locomotives, also known as the BRCW Type 2, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (BRCW) at Smethwick in 1958-59. Forty seven examples were built, and the last were withdrawn from service in 1994. Like their higher-powered sisters, the BRCW Classes 27 and 33, they had all-steel bodies and cab ends with fibreglass cab roofs.[citation needed] They were numbered D5300-D5346