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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By the Class 37 Locomotive Group [9] at Mid-Norfolk Railway: D6704 37004 Second East Anglian Regiment [nb 3] [7] Scrapped By MC Metals, Glasgow, June 1996 D6705 37005 37501 37601 1) Third East Anglian Regiment [nb 3] [7] 2) Teesside Steelmaster [1] 3) Class 37 - Fifty 4) Perseus: In service Europhoenix (leased to Rail Operations Group) D6706 ...
It became a tradition to name the principal express locomotives working on the East Coast Main Line after famous racehorses (the implied connection is obvious) and such names were carried by a locomotives in a succession of steam, diesel and electric types. [2] LNER Class A3; LNER Class A2; British Rail Class 55: Railway Company Directors & Staff
The format of these numbers is xxxyyy, where xxx is the class number and yyy the unique identifier for that locomotive or unit. All locomotive classes have unique identifiers that commence at xx001, except classes 43 (High Speed Train power cars, originally classified as multiple-unit vehicles), 97 and 98 (departmental and steam locomotives).
Sleeping Car Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France, Blanc-Misseron: 1936 Shildon [184] 1978–7047 LNER: 650 Buffet Car York: Dia No. 167, Lot No. 761 1937 York [185] 1978–7065 LMS: 5987 Corridor Brake Third Derby: Dia No. 1968, Lot No. 1035 1937 York [186] 1977–7000 LMS: 45053 Mobile Test Unit 1938 Embsay [187] LMS: 799 Twelve ...
Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the power cars of British Rail's InterCity 125 High Speed Train. The power cars were built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982, and have been in service in the UK since 1976.