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The Class 87 locomotive design resulted from a requirement for a more powerful mixed traffic electrical locomotive by British Rail, needed to cope ...
View full detailsPROTOTYPE The Class 87 locomotive design resulted from a requirement for a more powerful mixed traffic electrical locomotive by British Rail, neede...
View full detailsSentinel 10218 was built for the Port of Bristol Authority, becoming PBA locomotive No. 39 and remaining at Avonmouth Docks until 1984. Moving to t...
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 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 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 detailsPower Car 43004 entered service in September 1976 and was one of the prototypes for the Brush MTU engine upgrade, this occurring between September ...
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 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 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 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 detailsStanier’s Turbomotive, often referred to as ‘The Turbo’ was an experimental non-condensing steam turbine locomotive inspired by similar Swedish Lju...
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 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...
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