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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 ...
Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives of the Western Region. David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6769-2. Strickland, David C. (September 1983). Locomotive Directory: Every Single One There Has Ever Been. Camberley: Diesel and Electric Group. ISBN 978-0-906375-10-5. OCLC 16601890. OL 27959920M. Wikidata Q105978499. Williams, Alan; Percival, David (1962).
These locomotives worked on British Railways as demonstrators but remained in the ownership of the manufacturers: [1] NBL/Paxman 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic. Tiger - preserved at Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway; Tom - preserved at Telford Steam Railway; English Electric. British Railways D0226 - preserved at Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
Diesel locomotives built or ordered by British Railways and post-privatisation companies. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 ...
This was an 0-4-0 diesel mechanical shunting locomotive built by Hudswell Clarke for the Crewe Works Narrow-gauge railway in 1930. It was the first diesel locomotive supplied to a major UK railway. [1] It had a McLaren-Benz 2-cylinder engine of 20 hp (15 kW) at 800 rpm. [2] It was transferred to Horwich Works in 1935.
Diagram of Priestman oil engine from The Steam engine and gas and oil engines (1900) by John Perry Petrol–electric Weitzer railmotor, first 1903, series 1906. The earliest recorded example of the use of an internal combustion engine in a railway locomotive is the prototype designed by William Dent Priestman, which was examined by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in 1888 who described it as ...
The origins of the Class 40 fleet lay in the prototype diesel locomotives (LMS No. 10000 and 10001 ordered by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Railways and D16/2 ordered by British Railways between 1947 and 1954) and most notably with the Southern Region locomotive No. 10203, which was powered by English Electric's 16SVT MkII engine developing 2,000 bhp (1,460 kW). [2]
British Rail Class D3/1 was a locomotive commissioned by British Rail in England. It was a diesel powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period built by the North British Locomotive Company. The NBL/MAN engines were built by the North British Locomotive Company in Scotland under licence from the German company MAN. They were introduced in 1958 and ...