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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 ...
Under British Railways, the locomotives became British Railways Class D16/1; they were initially operated primarily on mainline express passenger services on former LMS lines, both in single and in multiple. In 1953, they were transferred to the Southern Region for comparison with Bulleid's British Rail Class D16/2 diesel locomotives.
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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 ...
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 ...
Electro-diesel locomotives of Great Britain (6 P) ... British Rail locomotives (6 C, 9 P) D. Diesel–electric locomotives of Great Britain (73 P, 1 F) G.
British Rail Class D1/1 (formerly DY1) was a class of shunting locomotives commissioned by British Rail in England. It was a diesel locomotive in the pre-TOPS period built by the Hunslet Engine Company with a 153 horsepower (114 kW) Gardner 6L3 engine.
British Railways Class D16/2 was a class of prototype diesel locomotives built by British Railways at Ashford Works and introduced in 1950–1951, with a third example being introduced in 1954. They had been designed by Oliver Bulleid for the Southern Railway and were authorised in February 1947 [ 1 ] but did not appear until after nationalisation.