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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 ...
This article lists every locomotive allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e. British Railways and post-privatisation).
British Rail Class 43 (HST) List of British Rail Class 43 (HST) power cars; British Rail Class 44; British Rail Class 45; British Rail Class 46; British Rail Class 47; List of preserved British Rail Class 47 locomotives; List of British Rail Class 47 locomotives; British Rail Class 48; British Rail Class 50; British Rail Class 52; British Rail ...
British Rail Class 70 (diesel) British Rail Class 97/6; ... List of British Rail Class 43 (HST) power cars; LMS diesel shunter 7058; LMS diesel shunters 7059-7068;
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 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 ...
Railway Number Type or Class Builder Works Number Built Wheels Location Object Number Image Industrial Petrol Motor Rail 4217 1925 4wPM Shildon [116] 1987-7000 CEGB: D21 Hexhamshire: Diesel electric: Armstrong Whitworth: D21 1933 0-4-0: Tanfield [117] [118] 1978–7008 LMS: 7050: Diesel mechanical: Drewry/EE: Drewry 2047 EE 874 1934 0-4-0 York ...
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. TOPS has ...