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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 ...
British Rail Motive Power Combined Volume 2000. Sheffield: Platform 5. ISBN 1-902336-13-5. Hunt, David (2005). LMS locomotive Profiles Vol. 9: Main Line Diesel-Electrics Nos. 10000 and 10001. Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 1-905184-04-2. Ian Allan (1969). British Railways Locomotives and Other Motive Power: Combined Volume. London: Ian Allan ...
Thus, class 47 was originally divided into sub-classes 47/1 (locomotives fitted with steam-heating equipment), 47/2 (not fitted with train-heating equipment) and 47/3 (fitted with electric train-heating equipment), but in 1973 these sub-classes were redesignated 47/0, 47/3 and 47/4. Usually, the subclass is connected to the first digit of the ...
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, British Rail Class 07 - 7 preserved; Large shunters. British Rail Class D3/6 - 1 ...
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 ...
Electro-diesel units designed with both pantograph for OHLE use and internal diesel powerplant for non-electrified lines 2014-2019 46 × 5-car 13 × 9-car still in use None Class 802: Hitachi Kudamatsu & Pistoia: 2017-2020 27 x 5-car 7 x 9-car Class 805: Hitachi Newton Aycliffe: 2021-now 13 x 5-car still in use Class 810: 33 × 5-car Not In ...
The British Rail Class 127 diesel multiple units were built by BR Derby in 1959. Thirty 4-car units were built, formed of two outer driving motor vehicles, sandwiching two intermediate trailers which were classified class 186.
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.