Dieselisation (US: dieselization) is the process of equipping vehicles with a diesel engine or diesel engines. It can involve replacing an internal combustion...

March TMD is a railway traction maintenance depot situated near March, England. March was a steam locomotive shed under British Railways with the depot...

The Loughrea branch line was a railway line that opened in 1890 and closed in 1975. The 9 mile single track branch ran from the Attymon Junction on the...

The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated an extensive 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway system serving County Donegal, Ireland, from 1906...

The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km)...

000–240,000 km) for a mainline steam locomotive. World War II delayed dieselisation in the US until the late 1940s; in 1949, the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad...

continue with steam traction, CIÉ decided to push for the complete dieselisation of its railway system, expecting substantial economies of scale. The...

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The Dublin to Sligo main line is a railway route operated by Iarnród Éireann in Ireland. It starts in Dublin Connolly station, terminating at Sligo Mac...

The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by act of Parliament on 4 July 1838.[page needed][page needed] It was opened to passenger traffic on 21...

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non-stop train. In the late 1950s British Railways (BR) was committed to dieselisation, and began devising a replacement for the Gresley Pacifics on the East...

"turfburner". This locomotive was more successful, but was scrapped due to the dieselisation of the Irish railways. The only preserved cab forward locomotive is...

used either diesel or similar internal combustion engine designs. See Dieselisation in North America. Though electric railways expanded in Europe, they...

closures. The 1955 Modernisation Plan formally directed a process of dieselisation and electrification to take place; accordingly, steam locomotives had...

Kingdom, a gasoline-kerosene engine is known as a petrol-paraffin engine. Dieselisation gained momentum starting in the 1960s, and modern farm tractors usually...

were due to be constructed in 1957 were cancelled, due to impending dieselisation, and the last five would have been, too, had they not been at an advanced...

Bishnu Hunslet 0-6-2T 1949 3684 Ex NGR. Used for steam charters after dieselisation Surya Hunslet 0-6-2T 1962 3875 Shree Chandra Hunslet 0-6-2T 1962 3876...

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been a consulting engineer to CIÉ since 1949. He led the first major dieselisation programme, which involved the procurement of diesel multiple units from...

closures. The 1955 Modernisation Plan formally directed a process of dieselisation and electrification to take place; accordingly, steam locomotives had...

1947, and the Twin Cities Hiawatha received new equipment in 1948. Dieselisation accelerated and was complete by 1957. In 1955, the Milwaukee Road took...

the introduction of diesel shunters, the Western Region embarked on a dieselisation programme which, along with a reduction in branch line work, reduced...

 26–28. Kidner 1982, p. 64,71. Cooke 1965a, Reading-Tonbridge line dieselisation, p. 51. Kidner 1982, pp. 56, 63. Tyler 1855. Bradley 1985, pp. 71–72...

Class 37's engine and that of a tractor. As part of the large scale dieselisation brought about by the British Rail modernisation plan a need was identified...

Ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways, they initiated the dieselisation of the system and saw use on both passenger and freight services, with...

disappeared from British Railways, and was the most aggressive towards dieselisation and Dr Beeching's modernisation plan. It features yet another arrogant...

from 19 September 1970. The Otira Tunnel was long and steep, so for dieselisation from 1997, a door and special ventilation fans were fitted (electrification...

designs or look towards alternatives, which for many meant a programme of dieselisation. The main considerations were the rising cost of coal against diesel...

The Western Australian Government Railways (usually abbreviated to WAGR) operated many unique steam, diesel and electric locomotive classes. Often suffering...