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A British Rail Class 40 diesel-electric locomotive, from the turbocharger sound; this nickname is also occasionally applied to British Rail Class 20 locomotives. [111] Wizzo A British Rail Class 52 diesel-hydraulic type 4 locomotive [112] Woolworth A South Eastern and Chatham Railway N class 2-6-0 steam locomotive, built at Woolwich Arsenal [113]
British Rail's Class 44 locos were all named after various UK hills and mountains, giving rise to the nickname for the type of Peaks. [6] Many of BR's Class 60 locomotives were also given these names, although sadly most have now been removed. [4] HR Ben Class; British Rail Class 44; British Rail Class 60; National Power Class 59 [3]
The British Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class 47s were built at Brush's Falcon Works in Loughborough and at British Railways' Crewe Works between 1962 and 1968, which made them the most numerous class of British mainline ...
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 ...
Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the BR Standard Class 7, or 'Britannia' Class that ran on the British Railways network. They represented an attempt to standardise steam design for ease of maintenance and usage.
List of BR 'Clan' Class locomotives; List of British Rail Class 47 locomotives; List of British Rail Class 52 locomotives; List of British Rail Class 87 locomotives; List of British Rail classes; List of British Rail departmental multiple unit classes; List of British Rail diesel multiple unit classes; List of British Rail electric multiple ...
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.
Designed by George Hughes, chief mechanical engineer of the LMS, and built at the ex-L&YR works at Horwich and the ex-LNWR works at Crewe.The inspiration came from a Caledonian Railway 2-6-0 design at the grouping, however the cylinders were too large for the LMS's English section's loading gauge, resulting in Hughes having to adapt the concept. [3]