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A copy of the 2002 edition of the National Routeing Guide. The railway network of Great Britain is operated with the aid of a number of documents, which have been sometimes termed "technical manuals", [1] because they are more detailed than the pocket-timetables which the public encounters every day.
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 ...
5 currently preserved, 36 exported to France or Spain where 5 remain stored, remainder scrapped The British Rail Class 58 is a class of Co-Co diesel locomotive designed for heavy freight. The narrow body with cabs at either end led to them being given the nickname "Bone" by rail enthusiasts .
Vehicle Diagram Book No. 200 for Loco Hauled Coaches (PDF). Derby: British Railways Board. January 1989 – via Barrowmore MRG. Green-Hughes, Evan (May 2011). "The Mk 2 coaches". Hornby Magazine. No. 47. Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. pp. 42– 45. ISSN 1753-2469. OCLC 226087101.
Rule 55 was an operating rule which applied on British railways in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was superseded by the modular rulebook following re- privatisation of the railways . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It survives, very differently named: the driver of a train waiting at a signal on a running line must remind the signaller of its presence.
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 ...
The Britannia Class design was based on best practice from the pre-nationalisation railway companies in terms of operating efficiency and lower maintenance costs; [2] various weight-saving measures also increased the route availability of a Pacific-type locomotive on the British Railways network. [3]
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