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'Qwag' or No. 371971 has had a long association with the Great Central Railway, having been the first locomotive to be based at the newly preserved...
View full detailsBritish Railways originally ordered ten Class 40s, then known as "English Electric Type 4s", as evaluation prototypes. They were to be used as repl...
View full detailsIntroduced to service as D212 in May 1959 and the third of the production series to be delivered, 'Aureol' was officially named in 1960. By 1974 wh...
View full detailsDETAILS The British Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A tot...
View full detailsThe British Rail Class 47 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 51...
View full detailsThe British Rail Class 47 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 51...
View full detailsThe Advanced Passenger Train (APT) programme is remembered by many as one of British Rail's greatest embarrassments, an ambitious but ultimately un...
View full detailsDETAILS The HST fleet is now into its fifth decade of travelling British railways, and replacements for it are currently being introduced East Midl...
View full details2 Car Electric Multiple Unit Nr 2147 Comprises Driving Motor Brake Coach and Composite Driving Coach Motor: 5 Pole Skew Wound DCC Ready: 8 Pin Sock...
View full detailsCarrying D5557 as its first number, the locomotive was initially allocated to the Ipswich Engine Shed before moving to a great many others across t...
View full detailsThe first locomotive built under the 1955 British Transport Commission's modernisation plan, D5500 hauled mainline services out of London Liverpool...
View full detailsDETAILS One of the newer Class 66 operating in the UK, the Beacon Rail owned locomotive first entered the country through the Channel Tunnel clad i...
View full detailsDETAILS Class 66 No. 6608 began its life working in Europe for Netherlands based ERS Railways in December 2003. In 2009 the locomotive was bought b...
View full detailsThe British Rail Class 121 is a single-car double-ended diesel multiple unit. 16 driving motor vehicles were built from 1960, numbered 55020–55035....
View full detailsNo. 60001, the first of the Class 60s to be delivered, was handed over to British Rail in 1989 after being ordered only 13 months earlier. The loco...
View full detailsClass 67 locomotives are a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives which were built for the English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) between 1...
View full detailsFollowing the FirstGroup’s decision to buyout their partner’s shares in Great Western Holdings a decision was made to rebrand the Great Western Tra...
View full detailsFollowing a period of unprofitable operations, the InterCity East Coast franchise and associated HST units passed from NXEC to East Coast, an opera...
View full detailsThe Class 67 locomotives are a Class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives which were built for the English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) betwe...
View full detailsFounded as Ally & MacLellan, Glasgow in 1875 and then later known as the Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd, the company went through various place and ...
View full detailsMSC Sentinel 10144 was delivered to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway Co. in 1963. The Locomotive served a long career at Ellesmere Port before mov...
View full details91117 entered traffic during July 1990 as 91017, carrying the name 'The Commonwealth Institute' during BR Intercity service between July 1993 and N...
View full detailsDelivered into Newport Docks on board the MV Stellanova in April 2004, 66850 first went into service with Freightliner, before being transferred to...
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