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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 ...
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.
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 ...
These were followed by standard gauge Great Northern Railway locomotives and then by the Metropolitan Railway's own standard gauge locomotives. [26]: 5–6 All tank engines, these locomotives were classified by letters of the alphabet. Initially eighteen A Class were ordered in 1864. By 1870 a total of forty-four had been built.
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 ...
1) Robert F. Fairlie Locomotive Engineer 1831-1885 [2] 2) Cardiff Canton: Stored Direct Rail Services: D6967 37267 37421 1) Strombidae [13] 2) The Kingsman [2] In service Colas Rail: D6968 37268 37401 1) Mary Queen of Scots [1] 2) The Royal Scotsman: In Service Locomotive Services Limited [23] D6969 37269 37417 1) Highland Region [1] 2) Rail [3]
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 list may not reflect recent changes. List of British Railways steam locomotives as of 31 December 1967 List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes