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Founded 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 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 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 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 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 details91001, the first of the Class, was built in April 1988 and soon unveiled to the press. The Locomotive was named 'Swallow' and carried the InterCity...
View full detailsDelivered in 1989, 91010 was the final one of the original batch of 10 Class 91s to be built. Between 2001 and 2009, the locomotive was named after...
View full detailsEngineered to deal with the steep gradients of the Calder Valley route which it became synonymous with them being named 'Calder Valley sets', the C...
View full detailsConstructed in Birmingham, the Class 101 DMU was one of the longest lasting DMUs to ever see service in the UK. 527 of the class would be built acr...
View full detailsOriginally conceived as a cheaper, more reliable alternative to the Advanced Passenger Train in the early 1970s, the British Railways Board authori...
View full detailsThe British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, and by some railway enthusiasts as 'tractors'...
View full detailsBuilt between 1962 and 1968, the Class 47 Co-Co Diesel-Electric locomotive was once the most numerous class of mainline diesel in Britain with 512 ...
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 detailsThe British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the class was ordered as part of the British ...
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 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 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 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...
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