As you will see from the photographs of locomotive number 75029 that the motion brackets on these locomotives are quite complicated steel castings which not only carry the expansion links but also house the weighshaft bearings. The left hand one also carries the fore and aft bearings for the ...
The 4-6-0 locomotive, designed by R.A. Riddles, was essentially a tender version of the Standard 4 2-6-4T, with similar characteristics to the GWR Manor Class, but built to the universal loading gauge. A total of 80 locomotives were built at the BR Swindon Works between May 1951 and...
The smallest of British Railway’s Standard class locomotives, the BR Standard Class 2MT, is now available for Train Simulator.Originally derived from the Ivatt-designed Class 2MT for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the BR Standard Class 2MT wa
Weight 49t Diesel Locomotives 13201 is a BR Class 08 0-6-0 350hp diesel electric shunting locomotive. As the standard BR general-purpose diesel shunter, the Class 08 or 'gronk' became the most numerous of any British locomotive class with 996 built between 1952 and 1962[1]. Contents...
Steam Locomotives 80079 BRStandard Class 4 2-6-4T Riddles LMS Fairburn BR BR Blue route availability [1] Towards the end of their life members of the class were regularly based at Shrewsbury, from where they saw occasionaluse on the Severn Valley Branch during commercial service, particularly ...
950 had been paid to Woodham’s for the locomotive plus a tender from astandard class 9Flocomotive (92134). The hulk was given a cosmetic coat of green paint plus smoke deflectors and double chimney, also from a9F. On the 24th April 1974 the Duke, looking smarter than for many years,...
NEM-standard close-coupling Many extra mounted parts Metal pantograph At the end of the 1920s, it became clear that Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft (DRG) would have to acquire new electric locomotives, among other things, to accelerate its goods traffic. The need to increase maximum speeds to...
Wainwright H-class locomotive no.31542 hauling Green-liveried set 156 from Kensington Olympia, under the Victoria mainline and up past Pig’s Hill sidings into Clapham Junction’s platform 17 during the summer of 1963. ©Dr. T.Gough (Mike King collection)Set 156 (West London Line)...
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Work now continues mainly on the boiler, which already has had a new firebox tube plate fitted together with a new copper internal steam pipe. Now that the smokebox and door have been refitted, re-tubing will soon follow. Meanwhile, volunteers from the Loughborough Standard Locomotives Group ...