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British Rail operated a large number of different diesel locomotive types. The majority of these were built between 1955 and 1968. The majority of these were built between 1955 and 1968. Many classes were rushed into service as part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan , but poor reliability and a rapid decline in rail transport meant that some would ...
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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 ...
British Rail Class 02; British Rail Class 14; British Rail Class 19; British Rail Class 22; British Rail Class 35; British Rail Class 41 (Warship Class) British Rail Class 42; British Rail Class 43 (Warship Class) British Rail Class 52
British Rail Motive Power Combined Volume 2000. Sheffield: Platform 5. ISBN 1-902336-13-5. Hunt, David (2005). LMS locomotive Profiles Vol. 9: Main Line Diesel-Electrics Nos. 10000 and 10001. Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 1-905184-04-2. Ian Allan (1969). British Railways Locomotives and Other Motive Power: Combined Volume. London: Ian Allan ...
It was equipped with an English Electric 6K diesel engine and two English Electric traction motors. It was delivered to Swindon Works in April 1936 as GWR No. 2. [1] Under British Railways ownership, it was renumbered 15100 in March 1948, and classified D3/10 (later 3/11A). [2]
With the entry into service of the new High Speed Train in the late 1970s, the old Class 55 diesel locomotives began to be withdrawn. In order to ensure that the first production unit, D9000/55022 (Royal Scots Grey), was preserved, the Deltic 9000 Fund was established with the intention of purchasing the locomotive once it was withdrawn.
The first two locomotives arrived at Newport Docks on 8 November 2009. [13] [14] The delivery gave GE its first locomotives in service on the British rail network. The first locomotive was given the name PowerHaul' at Leeds on 24 November 2009. [4] Four more locomotives were delivered to the UK on 2 December 2009. [15]