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The Class 800 train is a high speed bi-modal multiple unit (BMU). The traction system comprises electric motors that are alternatively capable of drawing power from electrified overhead lines where available, or of using electricity produced by onboard underfloor diesel generators when travelling beyond the current electrified network.
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George Jackson Churchward created for the Great Western Railway a family of standard classes of locomotive, based on a limited set of shared dimensions and components, and his principles were followed by his successors. Most of these locomotives had two cylinders, placed outside the frames, and they are listed here, ranging in size from small ...
The whole company was rebranded Great Western Railway (GWR) on 20 September 2015, [28] with the introduction of a green livery in recognition of the former Great Western Railway which existed between 1835 and 1947. [29] [30] The new livery was introduced when HST interiors were refurbished, and on sleeper carriages and Class 57/6 locomotives. [31]
The GWR was the longest-lived of the pre-nationalisation railway companies in Britain, surviving the 'Grouping' of the railways in 1923 almost unchanged. As a result, the history of its numbering and classification of locomotives is relatively complicated.
These were three differing types of 2-2-2 engine (initially of the Jenny Lind type), though they are recorded as a single class in the GWR diagrams. Nos. 7 and 8 (6 ft 3 in or 1,905 mm driving wheels) were built in 1859, No. 30 (6 ft 6 in or 1,981 mm wheels) in 1860, and the fourth, No. 110 (6 ft 0 in or 1,829 mm wheels), in 1862. [1]
The first Class 800 entered service with LNER on 15 May 2019, allowing for the first withdrawal of an InterCity 225 set. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The withdrawals have gradually continued as more of the new Azuma trains entered service and at the beginning of 2020, it was planned that the final InterCity 225 sets would leave LNER's fleet by June 2020. [ 22 ]
A second facility was added a few years later by the South Devon Railway and the two were combined under the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1876. The Bristol and Exeter had been worked by the GWR until 1849 but then purchased its own locomotives. Temporary workshops for these were built at Exeter but a permanent facility at Bristol was opened ...