Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The British Rail Class 25, also known as the Sulzer Type 2, is a class of 327 diesel locomotives built between 1961 and 1967 for British Rail. They were numbered in two series, D5151–D5299 and D7500–D7677.
Over the years, the British Railways Mark 2 design has been manufactured by many of the British model railway manufacturers. Hornby Railways introduced Mk. 2 BFK and TSO models in the late 1960s and these have remained in production intermittently ever since, sometimes being used to represent coaches of later variants (such as the Mk.2 B BFK in ...
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; UK railway technical manuals
1979–1980 (2) 1982 (2) 1990 All Class 129: Cravens 'Parcels' 2 × Leyland 150 bhp (112 kW) 1955 (entered service 1958) 3 1972–1973 1986 (departmental use) Class 130: Parcels conversion from Class 116 1957–1961 (converted 1969) 2 1972 Parcels conversion from Class 116 Class 131: Parcels conversion from Class 122: 2 × AEC 150 bhp (112 kW) 1959
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.
The original form of road level crossing on British railways dates from 1842 onwards, [6] [7] it consisted of two or four wooden gates (one or two on each side of the railway). When open to road traffic, the gates were closed across the railway to prevent horses and livestock inadvertently escaping onto the railway.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of British 0-6-0 steam locomotives.. Swindon Works built 260 of these goods locomotives between 1883 and 1899 to a design of William Dean.