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The locomotive was unable to return to Llangollen Railway following the management's decision to strictly limit the number of diesel locomotives based there. The combination of this and a number of accumlated faults saw the loco put up for sale in April 2000. East Lancs Diesel Group 1965 No. D7663 / 25313 BR Bo-Bo Class 25
Between 1956 and 1960, locomotives of the Merchant Navy class were rebuilt and the air-smoothed casing removed. Shaw Savill was rebuilt in March 1957, [5] withdrawn from service in July 1964 [5] and arrived at Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, in December 1964. At the time of withdrawal it had travelled ...
Tyseley Locomotive Works Limited: a wholly owned subsidiary of VTCT, responsible for general and mechanical engineering and hire of locomotives and rolling stock; Vintage Trains Community Benefit Society: a publicly owned Community Benefit Society established to raise funds, controlled by VTCT through its ability to control the Board
No. 7 Tom Rolt Tom Rolt at Nant Gwernol. The 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales experienced a significant growth in passenger numbers in the late 1960s, and sought additional motive power to handle the extra traffic. The railway's unusual gauge meant there were no second-hand steam locomotives available to purchase.
Hibberd Planet diesel shunter at WLLR. F. C. Hibberd & Co Ltd was a British locomotive-building company founded in 1927 to build industrial petrol and diesel locomotives.. Kent Construction and Engineering Co of Ashford, Kent had been reconditioning and reselling former military locomotives sold off as surplus at the end of World War I, though its had also developed its own narrow gauge ...
Approaching Newby Bridge in 1973. 44806 was an early candidate for preservation, moving directly from BR to the "Steamtown" collection at Carnforth, where it was housed in the same locomotive depot where steam's final fires had been dropped only recently.
The FM H-15-44 was a diesel locomotive manufactured by Fairbanks-Morse from September 1947 to June 1950. The locomotive was powered by a 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW), eight-cylinder opposed piston engine as its prime mover, and was configured in a B-B wheel arrangement mounted atop a pair of two-axle AAR Type-B road trucks with all axles powered.
After the car sold for $300,000, owner David Clabuesch accused Barrett-Jackson of ending the auctioneering prematurely, resulting in a lower-than-expected sale price. After the sale, Barrett-Jackson sued Clabuesch for "outrageous and defamatory actions," including chaining the car's wheels at the auction tent and putting up a sign calling its ...