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Each steam locomotive was allocated to a particular shed and an oval, cast metal plate (usually 4 + 5 ⁄ 8 in × 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (120 mm × 190 mm)) [3] with the depot code was bolted to the smokebox on the front of the locomotive. When a locomotive was reallocated to a different shed the plate was taken off and replaced with one from the new shed.
From the introduction of TOPS in 1973, all British Rail diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units were allocated to a particular traction maintenance depot or TMD. . Drawing from the terminology of steam traction, these depots were generally referred to as "sheds", and indeed most locations were those which had possessed depots for steam loc
From late 1970, British Rail started to apply new numbers to locomotives and multiple units based on the TOPS classification system, the first classes to be dealt with being the LNER-design EM1 type (TOPS class 76) and the AL3 and AL4 types of AC electric locomotives (TOPS classes 83 and 84). The format of these numbers is xxxyyy, where xxx is ...
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 Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-0112-X. Marsden, Colin J. (1983). British Rail Motive Combined Volume 1983.
The sixth withdrawal, No. 65007, was also the first of the Colwick allocations to go. The last of the Peterborough allocations to go, No. 65005 was withdrawn that May as the ninth member of its class to go. By 1953, only five of the class were left. These were the three Hitchin allocations and two Colwick allocations, those being Nos. 65002 and ...
W.B. Yeadon's will donated his collection of photographs, documents and research notes to the Brynmor Jones Library of the University of Hull; [1] the collection includes over 30,000 photographs, primarily of LNER locomotives and trains, as well as company (works) records of locomotive repairs, boiler repairs, allocations, and other documents. [2]
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) Class Y14 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive.The LNER classified them J15.. The Class Y14 was designed by T.W. Worsdell for both freight and passenger duties - a veritable 'maid of all work'.
Search. Appearance. Donate; Create account ... the depot had an allocation of 0-4-2, ... 2-8-2 and 4-6-0 steam locomotives. [3] References This page was last edited ...