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MSC 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 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 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 detailsAfter a number of reconfigurations and experimentations with the original APT-P, the NDM was the first vehicle completed for testing in June 1977 a...
View full detailsPoor service saw the Network SouthCentral franchise transferred from Connex Trains, later renamed Southern in 2000. No serious attempt to update th...
View full detailsWhen Southwestern was handed to South West Trains in 1996, the 4-VEPs they inherited were quickly repainted in a style largely based upon the NSE l...
View full detailsFor 2022, the Hornby Dublo locomotive range has been extended to include a BR Princess Coronation Class, ‘City of Lichfield’ in the striking BR Blu...
View full detailsBritish Railways locomotive 35026 entered service at the end of 1948 and was soon allocated to the Stewarts Lane Shed in London. In January 1951 th...
View full detailsSouthern locomotive 21C146 entered service in November 1946 having been built to Bulleid's air-smoothed 'Light Pacific' design. From new the locomo...
View full detailsAfter its 1993 withdrawal from Derby Works, D3771 was purchased and became a permanent resident of the Great Western Society. In 2010 the locomotiv...
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 As the standard BR general-purpose diesel shunter, the 08 Class became a familiar sight at major stations and freight yards. Although a lar...
View full detailsCreated in 1876 for working on the East London Line, No. 54 'Waddon' was bought by the SE&CR in 1904, acting as a motor train preforming light ...
View full detailsHaving been rebuilt with a conventional boiler and A4 style streamlining in 1937, the W1 ‘Hush-Hush’ continued to serve with LNER and later British...
View full detailsAt the end of January 1935, a Kychap double blastpipe and chimney was fitted to the W1, which eventually required the fitting of a smoke lifting co...
View full details257 Squadron' was completed at Brighton Works in 1948 as one of the first of its Class produced under BR, and allocated to Dover Marine Shed to wor...
View full detailsThe British Railways Standard 9F Class was a 2-10-0 steam locomotive, the last of the standardised BR designs. The Robert Riddles design was inten...
View full detailsContinuing as a distinct and uniquely designed steam turbine locomotive, the ‘Princess Royal’ Class Turbomotive returned to the main line in 1947...
View full detailsDETAILS Loram UK Ltd. offers a complete range of rolling stock engineering and restoration services as well as other track focused infrastructure o...
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 detailsWhile the Class 66s began their service in 1998, No. 66004s unique livery and service reflect a modern preoccupation with promoting environmental a...
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 detailsD444 as it was originally known was introduced into service in 1968 and allocated to the Stoke Division, being renumbered 50044 under the TOPS clas...
View full detailsDETAILS Triumph' was allocated to the Stoke Division in 1968, being re-numbered 50042 in 1973 under the TOPS classification system and shedding D44...
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