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    for realism) Problems playing this file? See media help. The BR Standard Class 8 was a class of a single 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive designed by Robert...
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    The British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 is one of the 12 BR standard classes of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s. It was...
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  • The BR Standard steam locomotives were an effort to standardise locomotives from the motley collection of older pre-grouping locos. Construction started...
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    The original proposal was for a boiler from the BR Standard Class 7 Britannia 4-6-2, adapting it to a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement : 52  but Riddles eventually...
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    The BR Standard Class 7, otherwise known as the Britannia Class, is a class of 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive designed under Robert Riddles for use by...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 6
    The BR Standard Class 6, otherwise known as the Clan Class, was a class of 4-6-2 Pacific tender steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for use by...
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  • Class 8 may refer to: 8 Metre (keelboat), class of racing yacht Beneteau First Class 8 British Rail Class 08, British diesel shunting engine BR Standard...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T
    The British Railways Standard Class 4 tank is a class of steam locomotive, one of the BR standard classes built during the 1950s. They were used primarily...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star
    BR Standard Class 9F number 92220 Evening Star is a preserved British steam locomotive completed in 1960. It was the last steam locomotive to be built...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0
    The BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for British Railways (BR). 115 locomotives were built to this standard...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0
    The BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 is a class of steam locomotive, one of the British Railways Standard classes of the 1950s. They were physically the smallest...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0
    ubiquitous BR Standard Class 5 and their predecessors, the Black Fives, would be too heavy. They were essentially a tender version of the Class 4 2-6-4T...
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  • Thumbnail for List of preserved BR Standard Class 9F locomotives
    This is a list of BR Standard Class 9F steam locomotives that survive in preservation. Nine 9F locomotives avoided being scrapped at the end of steam...
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    and introduced in 1953. The design derived from the LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T which BR had built after nationalisation. Modifications were made to the...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T
    The BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T was a class of steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for British Railways. It was essentially a hybrid design, the...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 6 72010 Hengist
    "new-build" project. The design is based on the mixed traffic BR Standard 6 Clan Class, none of which were preserved. The project is akin to the construction...
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  • Thumbnail for British Rail Class 08
    The British Rail Class 08 is a class of diesel–electric shunting locomotives built by British Railways (BR). As the standard BR general-purpose diesel...
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  • Thumbnail for British Rail Class 98
    another is assigned. SR Class U 31625 is TOPS 98426 as it would otherwise duplicate GWR 7325 (TOPS 98425), BR Standard Class 8 71000 Duke of Gloucester...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell
    worked the last steam railtour on British Railways (BR) in 1968. One of 55 of the Standard Class 7, Oliver Cromwell was built at Crewe Works, being completed...
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  • Class, 4-6-2 BR Standard Class 6 Clan Class, 4-6-2 BR Standard Class 5, 4-6-0 BR Standard Class 4, 4-6-0 BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 BR Standard Class 4...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 5 73096
    2009. Wikimedia Commons has media related to BR Standard Class 5MT 73096. British Railways Standard Class 5MT no. 73096 (Mid Hants Railway)[permanent dead...
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  • Thumbnail for LMS Stanier Class 8F
    the design was chosen to become the country's standard freight design, reprising the role the GCR Class 8K had in the First World War. The War Department...
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  • Thumbnail for Steam locomotives of British Railways
    Class 98. Over 40 BR Standard Locomotives are preserved. BR Standard Class 9F/2-10-0 – 9 examples BR Standard Class 8 (Duke) – 1 example BR Standard Class...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 3 2-6-0
    The BR Standard Class 3 2-6-0 was a class of mixed traffic steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for British Railways. It was essentially a hybrid...
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  • Thumbnail for BR ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0
    Railways (BR) ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 was a class of 733 2-8-0 steam locomotives designed for heavy freight. These locomotives of the WD Austerity 2-8-0 type...
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  • Thumbnail for British Rail Class 421
    The British Rail Class 421 (4CIG) electric multiple units were built at BR's Holgate Road carriage works between 1964 and 1972. Units were built in two...
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  • Thumbnail for British Rail Class 31
    locos were still in standard BR Blue livery and the 4 in the number was painted over and a 5 placed over the top. Some of the sub-class were painted into...
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  • Thumbnail for British Rail Classes 101 and 102
    These classes proved to be some of the most successful and longest-lived of BR's First Generation DMUs, second in longevity only to the Class 121, with...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Caprotti Black Fives
    batch of thirty BR Standard Class 5s and also to the solitary BR Standard Class 8 71000 Duke of Gloucester. One of the Caprotti Standard Fives (73129) survives...
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  • Thumbnail for BR Standard Class 7 70000 Britannia
    British Railways Standard Class 7 'Britannia Class' No. 70000 Britannia is a preserved steam locomotive, owned by the Royal Scot Locomotive and General...
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