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...

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 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...

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

applications in the late 1930s. This work laid the foundation for the dieselisation of railroads in the 1940s and 1950s in the United States. Towards the...

24 years as they were replaced by diesel locomotives as part of the dieselisation process of the NZR. Nine JAs managed to last until the end of steam...

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...

too much money was spent on the expensive rebuilding programme when dieselisation and modernisation meant the locomotives would have very limited lives...

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...

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...