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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 ...
Locomotive Services Limited: 121: British Rail: Diesel 70 110 1 1 142: Pacer: 75 120 1 2 Lumo: 803: AT300: AC electric 125 200 5 5 Merseyrail: 777/0: METRO: DC electric 75 120 46 4 Third rail mode only 777/1: 7 Third rail mode - full top speed, battery mode - 62 mph / 100 km/h Network Rail: 153: Sprinter: Diesel 75 120 4 1 Track inspection [27 ...
When British Rail implemented the TOPS system for managing their operating stock, ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were incorporated into the system as Class 99. In order to circumvent restrictions of the application software, these ships were entered on TOPS as locomotives, 'hauling' the trains which they carried on board.
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York
Ian Allan ABC of British Motive Power, several editions; British Rail Locomotives, Platform 5, several editions; Today's Railways monthly updates, Platform 5; Kenny Barclay, British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs, Amberley Publishing Limited, 2017 ISBN 1445670062.
From late 1970, British Rail started to apply new numbers to locomotives and multiple units based on the TOPS classification system, the first classes to be dealt with being the LNER-design EM1 type (TOPS class 76) and the AL3 and AL4 types of AC electric locomotives (TOPS classes 83 and 84). The format of these numbers is xxxyyy, where xxx is ...
National Railway Museum collection. Overhauled on the Great Central Railway. Has seen mainline duty. 70014: Iron Duke: Crewe: June 1951: December 1967: 70015: Apollo: Crewe: June 1951: August 1967: 70016: Ariel: Crewe: June 1951: August 1967: 70017: Arrow: Crewe: June 1951: October 1966: Withdrawn as a result of damage incurred on 30 July 1966 ...
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 ...