• unusual locomotive designs in Ireland. Withdrawal of ex-SR locomotives happened mainly towards the end of steam on the Southern Region (in 1967), the pre-Grouping...
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    History of the Railways of Great Britain: Southern England v. 2. David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4733-0. Locomotives of the Southern Railway SR locomotive numbering...
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  • Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Locomotive Department was headquartered at Crewe from...
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    The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's...
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    classes of locomotives that ran on the British Southern Railway network. They represented a publicity success for the Southern Railway, with the West Country...
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    LSWR S15 class (redirect from Southern 825)
    restrictions. The new locomotives were built in three batches at Eastleigh, and were in service with the Southern Railway for 14 years. The locomotives continued...
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  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway had the largest stock of steam locomotives of any of the 'Big Four' Grouping, i.e. pre-Nationalisation railway...
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  • are the names and numbers of the LSWR N15 class/SR 'King Arthur' Class locomotives. Another successful publicity campaign by the Southern Railway when...
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    India. The railway relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. NMR switched to diesel locomotives on the section between Mettupalyam and Udhagamandalam....
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    The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its...
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    Despite the advent of electric and diesel locomotives in the mid-20th century, steam locomotives continued to be used and constructed into the 21st century...
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    built at the Southern Railway's Eastleigh Works. The following table sets out the names, numbers and other vital statistics of the locomotives that comprised...
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  • North British Railway steam locomotives. Locomotives of the LNER "NBRSG : NBR locomotives list". www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk. Archived from the original on...
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    Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid. Incorporating a number of new developments...
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    heritage railways such as the Museum of the Great Western Railway at Swindon and the Head of Steam museum at Darlington. These locomotives are all 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in...
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  • superseding steam locomotives by the early 1960s. State railways (VR) operated steam locomotives until 1975. In the Netherlands, the first electric trains...
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    Headstock (rolling stock) Kryšpín's system List of locomotive builders List of locomotives Locomotives in art Railway brakes Regenerative (dynamic) brakes Traction...
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  • Southern Locomotives Ltd is a not for profit organisation that restores, maintains and runs steam locomotives. It is based at Herston, Swanage, Dorset...
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    applied to the Light Pacifics – or Packets) is a class of air-smoothed 4-6-2 (Pacific) steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by Oliver Bulleid...
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    of 0-4-4-0T or 0-6-6-0T. While the Fairlie locomotives are now used only on heritage railways, the vast majority of diesel and electric locomotives in...
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  • Thompson Class Q1, a class of steam locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway, UK PRR Q1, a steam locomotive of the Pennsylvania Railroad, USA...
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    permits locomotives to negotiate curves that might restrict large rigid-framed locomotives. The design also provides more driving wheels per unit of locomotive...
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    railway network. Southern Railway utilizes various classes of electric and diesel locomotives to haul the trains. Steam locomotives are used by the Nilgiri...
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    The SR U class are 2-6-0 steam locomotives designed by Richard Maunsell for passenger duties on the Southern Railway (SR). The class represented the penultimate...
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    List of Peckett and Sons railway locomotives, plus those from Fox Walker, both built at the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. Despite heavy work and poor maintenance...
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    diesel locomotives, with railways fully converting to electric and diesel power beginning in the late 1930s. The majority of steam locomotives were retired...
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    locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity...
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    This table details the steam locomotives of the Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST class that have been preserved on heritage railways. Of the 484 'Austerities'...
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  • (NER Class '59') 0-6-0 Locomotives". The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia. Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, summer 1961 edition...
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    steam locomotives. The railway's headquarters are at Kurseong. On 5 December 1999, UNESCO declared the DHR a World Heritage Site. Two more railway lines...
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