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At 2 am a northbound passenger train derailed when it struck permanent way material that had fallen from a previous train. Locomotive hit bridge pier, driver killed. [296] 3 February 1983: 1: 12: Elgin, Moray: Broken rail leads to derailment of Aberdeen-to-Inverness passenger train, rearmost coach turned on its side and slid about 100 metres. [297]
Locomotives; Multiple units; Passenger train. Commuter; ... NZ, UK) Transport portal: This is the list of rail accident lists. Lists. By year
On 21 September 1951, an express passenger train was derailed at Weedon, Northamptonshire due to a defective bogie on the locomotive hauling it. Fifteen people died and 35 were injured. On 19 November 1951, a bridge was washed away between Cocking and Midhurst, West Sussex. A freight train was derailed when it attempted to cross the bridge.
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 ...
List of locomotives LNER No. LNER No. (1945-1948) BR No. Original Name (Rename(s)) Manufacturer Serial No. Entered Service Rebuilt Withdrawn Fate 4470: 113 60113 Great Northern: Doncaster Works: 1536 April 1922: September 1945 [a] – Rebuilt as a Thompson A1/1, later scrapped. 4471 102 60102 Sir Frederick Banbury: Doncaster Works: 1539 10 July ...
By the Class 37 Locomotive Group [9] at Mid-Norfolk Railway: D6704 37004 Second East Anglian Regiment [nb 3] [7] Scrapped By MC Metals, Glasgow, June 1996 D6705 37005 37501 37601 1) Third East Anglian Regiment [nb 3] [7] 2) Teesside Steelmaster [1] 3) Class 37 - Fifty 4) Perseus: In service Europhoenix (leased to Rail Operations Group) D6706 ...
(Passenger stock and certain diesel locomotives used a roundel variant, where the words "British Railways" were in a ring surrounding the crest.) [8] From 1965, the BR Corporate Image and "Double Arrow" logo was adopted, but this logo was not applied to steam locomotives (except on the Vale of Rheidol line).
Since the invention of the very first railway steam locomotive in 1804, railway companies have applied names to their locomotives, carriages and multiple units.Numbers have usually been applied too, but not always; the Great Western Railway only applied names to its own broad gauge locomotives (though numbers were given to such locomotives that it inherited from elsewhere).