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At 2 am a northbound passenger train derailed when it struck permanent way material that had fallen from a previous train. Locomotive hit bridge pier, driver killed. [296] 3 February 1983: 1: 12: Elgin, Moray: Broken rail leads to derailment of Aberdeen-to-Inverness passenger train, rearmost coach turned on its side and slid about 100 metres. [297]
On 4 April 1958, a parcels train overran signals and was in collision with an electric multiple unit at Gloucester Road Junction, Croydon, Surrey. Six people were injured. [2] On 20 May 1958, a passenger train was in collision with a locomotive and brake van at Arkleston Junction, Paisley, Renfrewshire due to errors by the driver of the ...
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.
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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June 1951: August 1967: 70016: Ariel: Crewe: June 1951: August 1967: 70017: Arrow: Crewe: June 1951: October 1966: Withdrawn as a result of damage incurred on 30 July 1966 ...
National Railway Museum [3] Preserved At the Great Central Railway: D6701 37001 37707 Scrapped D6702 37002 37351 Scrapped By TJ Thomson, November 2007 D6703 37003 1) First East Anglian Regiment [nb 2] [7] 2) Tiger Moth [nb 1] 3) Dereham Neatherd High School 1912-2012 [8] Preserved By the Class 37 Locomotive Group [9] at Mid-Norfolk Railway ...
January 12 – British India – At Hazaribagh on the East Indian Railway, saboteurs remove a 36-foot (11 m) length of rail. The locomotive of the Dehra Dun Express from Howrah actually makes it across the gap and regains the rails, but the track is sufficiently damaged that the rest of the train is derailed, with 21 deaths and 71 injuries. A ...
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 ...