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Chiltern Railways: 68: Diesel 100 160 6 Leased from Direct Rail Services [66] Colas Rail: 37/0: Diesel 90 140 8 37/4: 2 37/6: 2 43: 125 200 10 [67] 56: 80 129 10 [68] 66: 75 120 5 [69] 67: 125 200 2 [70] 70: 75 120 17 [71] DB Cargo UK: 60: Diesel 60 97 81 66: 75 120 161 67: 125 200 24 Also 7 locomotives leased to Transport for Wales. [72] 90 ...
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British Rail departmental wagons are wagons used by British Rail and their successors Railtrack and Network Rail for departmental purposes. Many vehicles are named after aquatic creatures (including fish, mammals, birds and mythical creatures), these names started life as telegraphic codes.
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
The two lengths were loaded on ten wagons, attached to the existing track by a steel rope and drawn back at 30 ft/min (9.1 m/min). As the train moved back, the old rails were levered out and the new ones dropped into the chairs. A hoist on the rear wagon dropped the last part of the rail into place. [26]
20-ton rail wagon: PC850-PC851: 1931: 1965: Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company/London Transport: personnel carrier: converted from pre-1938 trailer 7061/7063 PC852: 1931: 1966: Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company/London Transport: personnel carrier: converted from pre-1938 trailer 7080 PC854: 1931: 1966
Former 'Private Owner' wagons, owned by industrial concerns rather than the railway companies, had a prefix letter "P" but were renumbered into a new series commencing at 3000. Some carriages and wagons built by British Railways to the designs of the 'Big Four' companies were numbered in their series and carried the appropriate letter prefix.
The London Underground utilises differing loading gauges: a Metropolitan line A Stock sub-surface train (left) passes a Piccadilly line 1973 Stock tube train (right).. The loading gauge restricts the size of passenger coaches, goods wagons (freight cars) and shipping containers that can travel on a section of railway track.