The 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials were organised by the newly nationalised British Railways (BR). Locomotives from the former "Big Four" constituent...
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LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard (redirect from Mallard (locomotive))
of the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials would be used to help design the British Railways Standard locomotives. The express passenger locomotive designs...
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GWR 2884 Class (category 2-8-0 locomotives)
3803 (now preserved), emerge remarkably successfully from the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials against more modern engines including the LMS 8F and the WD...
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was renumbered 902502. It was used in the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials by British Railways, and in late 1948 was repainted and renumbered as E902502...
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LMS Coronation Class (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives)
represented at the 1948 British Railways locomotive exchange trials, designed to compare the performances of similar locomotives from the four pre-nationalised...
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LNER Class A4 4902 Seagull (category LNER Class A4 locomotives)
sisters E22 Mallard and 60034 Lord Faringdon were used for the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials. Seagull was used on the ex-GWR main line between London and...
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LMS Rebuilt Royal Scot Class (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives)
classification 6P; this was later revised by BR to 7P. In the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials, carried out by the recently nationalised British Railways...
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addition, a handful of locomotives were inherited from minor constituents. The 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials compared locomotives from each company against...
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in York, England. This was also used for British Railways 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials along with two other dynamometer cars, both of which have also...
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SR Merchant Navy class (redirect from Merchant Navy (steam locomotive))
This became very apparent in the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials and at trials at the Rugby locomotive testing plant in 1952. This was largely attributed...
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GWR 6959 Class 6990 Witherslack Hall (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1948)
steam locomotive. It was built at Swindon by British Railways to a Great Western Railway design in 1948. It took part in the 1948 Locomotive Trials, on...
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LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon (category LNER Class A4 locomotives)
Lord Faringdon and two other locomotives E22 Mallard and 60033 Seagull were used for the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials. Lord Faringdon was used on the...
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BR Standard Class 6 (category 4-6-2 locomotives)
to Inverness during the British Railways 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials. During these trials the locomotive showed that a Light Pacific had the potential...
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GWR 4073 Class (redirect from Castle class locomotive)
7008–7027, delivered May 1948 to August 1949. Lot 375: Nos. 7028–7037, delivered May 1950 to August 1950. These locomotives were built with minimal changes...
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Rainhill Trials had proved that steam locomotives could perform such duties. Robert Stephenson and Company was the pre-eminent builder of steam locomotives in...
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Charles Collett (category Locomotive builders and designers)
and this (by then 45 year old) class was represented in the 1948 Locomotive Exchange Trials. In 1927 Collett produced a version of Churchward's small-wheeled...
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The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally...
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twelve locomotives with an additional payment of 2,000 guilders per locomotive. In 1856, the ‘’Leeuw‘’ was exchanged for the younger ex-NSR locomotive 16...
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GWR 4000 Class (redirect from Star class locomotive)
Walschaerts gear. The prototype locomotive was rebuilt as a member of the Castle Class in November 1929. During initial trials the prototype proved to be largely...
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L&YR Class 27 (category Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway locomotives)
the boiler so the minimum of energy was lost. After months of trials, 20 further locomotives with the Schmidt superheater were authorised to be built and...
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LSWR N15 class (category 4-6-0 locomotives)
LSWR's passenger locomotive fleet. His response was to produce a modern, standard express passenger design similar to the H15. Trials undertaken in 1914...
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BR Standard Class 7 (category 4-6-2 locomotives)
1954. The design employed results from the 1948 locomotive exchanges undertaken in advance of further locomotive classes being constructed. Three batches...
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British Rail Class 37 (category British Rail diesel locomotives)
The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the class was ordered as part of the British Rail...
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SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes (category 4-6-2 locomotives)
un-rebuilt locomotive with warped casings, the result of a lagging fire. High fuel consumption. This was highlighted during the 1948 locomotive exchanges undertaken...
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LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives)
5 4-6-0, commonly known as the Black Five, is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives. It was introduced by William Stanier and built between 1934 and 1951...
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DRB Class 50 (category Steam locomotives of Germany)
late as 1948, 3,164 Class 50 engines were built by many European locomotive factories – towards the war's end as "provisional war locomotives"...
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London Underground rolling stock (redirect from London Underground steam locomotives)
the late 1930s. Until the early 1960s an electric locomotive was exchanged for a steam locomotive on Metropolitan line services beyond Rickmansworth...
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British Rail Class 84 (category British Rail electric locomotives)
E3043 went to Rugby Testing Centre for trials. The persistent problems could have been the end of the ten locomotives of Class 84, but the extension of the...
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S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 (category Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway locomotives)
reverse. Consequently, they were fitted with tablet exchanging apparatus on both sides of the locomotive. In addition, the first six were equipped with cab...
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Superman (redirect from More powerful than a locomotive)
Fawcett Comics for copyright infringement.[citation needed] The trial began in March 1948 after seven years of discovery. The judge ruled that Fawcett had...
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