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Northern Ireland operated several diesel shunters as early as the 1930s. CIÉ's first diesels consisted of five shunters built by CIÉ in 1947/48. The initial two diesel mainline locomotives were also built in Inchicore, in 1950/51, and fitted with Sulzer engines and MV traction equipment.
The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR), was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway that opened to traffic on 11 April 1848. The Northern Counties Committee came into existence on 1 July 1903 as the result of the Midland Railway taking over the BNCR.
The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways in Ireland is 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in).This unusually broad track gauge is otherwise found only in Australia (where it was introduced by the Irish railway engineer F. W. Sheilds), in the states of Victoria, southern New South Wales (via some extensions of the Victorian rail network) and South Australia, as well as in Brazil.
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During the 1950s, the standard U.S. Army motorized 203 mm (8.0 in) artillery piece was the M55, based on the chassis and the turret of the M53 155 mm self-propelled gun, which used some components from the M48 tank.
The battle between Kreese and Silver almost had a very different ending.
HMS Nasturtium (K107) was a Flower-class corvette ordered as La Paimpolaise by the French Navy she was taken over in 1940 and renamed. She was sold to Greece in 1948 and renamed Cania List of ships with the same or similar names
The Skoda 150 mm Model 1918 was a heavy mountain howitzer, manufactured by Skoda Works.The design was begun during World War I, but the first prototype was completed as the war ended.