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This is a list of British Rail diesel multiple-unit train classes. ... Proposed single car conversion of Class 156 [1] Never built: Never built: Class 153 Super Sprinter:
Diesel motors became powerful enough for railway use after World War I, and the Great Western Railway built several single cars and multiple units in the 1930s, which lasted until the 1960s. A 1952 report recommended the trialling of lightweight diesel multiple units, followed by plans in the 1955 Modernisation Plan for up to 4,600 diesel railcars.
A range of diesel locomotives (Classes 37, 47, 31, 20 and 56) at Dereham. This article lists the wide variety of locomotives and multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948.
This category contains articles about diesel multiple units built for British Rail and its predecessors, and the post-privatisation companies. Pages in category "British Rail diesel multiple units" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.
British Rail Locomotives Combined Volume 1962. London: Ian Allan Publishing. Williams, Alan; Percival, David (1977). British Rail Locomotives and Multiple-Units including Preserved Locomotives 1977. London: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-0751-9. Wood, Roger (January 1989). British Rail Motive Power Combined Volume 1989. London: Ian Allan ...
British Rail Class D2/10 - 2 preserved; British Rail Class D2/11 - 1 preserved; British Rail Class D2/12 - 1 preserved; British Rail Class 01 - 2 preserved; British Rail Class 02 - 7 preserved; British Rail Class 03 - 56 preserved; British Rail Class 04 - 18 preserved; British Rail Class 05 - 4 preserved; British Rail Class 06 - 1 preserved,
The two prototype power cars emerged from the works in June and August 1972 and were initially numbered 41001 and 41002, but after a short period the entire set, including the passenger coaches, became reclassified as a diesel-electric multiple unit: British Rail Class 252. The power cars were given the coaching stock numbers 43000 and 43001.
Class 201, Class 202 and Class 203 were the TOPS codes for a series of diesel-electric multiple units built for the Southern Region of British Railways in 1957–86. They were classified by the Southern Region as 6S, 6L and 6B respectively, and known collectively as the Hastings Diesels or Hastings Units.