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For details of previous rolling stock and future deliveries, you should see the pages for the individual operators or the alternative lists in the 'see also' section at the bottom of this page. Electrified routes generally use either 25,000V AC supplied by overhead lines , or 750V DC third rail .
This article lists the wide variety of locomotives and multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for classifying its steam locomotive types and other rolling stock, before settling on the TOPS computer system in the late 1960s. TOPS has ...
In September 2011, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board issued Railway Group Standard GM/RT2453, [4] which made some alterations to the TOPS classes allocated to various types of locomotive and multiple unit - primarily extending the number ranges for certain types of locomotives and multiple units where the previous allocation ranges were ...
North London stock 57 1985 650 V Third & Fourth Rail 56 Class 502: Liverpool-Southport/Ormskirk stock 61 1980 650 V Third Rail 150 cars Class 503: Mersey-Wirral stock 45 1985 650 V Third Rail 44 Class 504: Manchester-Bury stock 26 1991 1.2 kV Side Contact Third Rail (Unique on BR network) 25 Class 505: Manchester-Altrincham stock 22 sets 1971 1 ...
Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset, or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated and then shipped to the buyer without much cost or delay. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The term contrasts with fixed stock ( infrastructure ), which is a collective term for the track , signals , stations , other buildings, electric wires ...
When British Rail implemented the TOPS system for managing their operating stock, ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were incorporated into the system as Class 99. In order to circumvent restrictions of the application software, these ships were entered on TOPS as locomotives, 'hauling' the trains which they carried on board.
Initially stock inherited from the 'Big Four' companies was given regional prefixes (e.g. DE, DM, DS and DW) indicating their origin, and adapting existing number series. From about 1951, British Railways started to use new numbering series for additions to departmental and internal user stock on a regional basis, as follows:
British railway rolling stock; List of British railway-owned locomotive builders; List of British Rail TOPS depot codes; List of British Railways shed codes; List of British Railways steam locomotives as of 31 December 1967