• 52°46′55″N 1°11′50″W / 52.78194°N 1.19722°W / 52.78194; -1.19722 Brush Traction was a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives in Loughborough...
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    Wabtec acquired Collins Aerospace ARINC rail solutions. Wabtec bought Brush Traction of Loughborough, an English locomotive builder and maintainer, for US$31...
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    a class of Co-Co heavy freight diesel-electric locomotives built by Brush Traction. They are nicknamed Tugs by rail enthusiasts. During the 1980s, it became...
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    465/1 trains over the course of 2009/2010. Brush Traction, the supplier/manufacturer of the original traction equipment, worked as consultants to assist...
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    process of reinstalling a Valenta into 43044 for preservation. In 2007, Brush Traction and Hitachi equipped Paxman Valenta powered 43089 and a semi-permanently...
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    2013, five GB Railfreight Class 73s were re-engined as Class 73/9 by Brush Traction Wabtec at their factory in Loughborough. The first three converted locomotives...
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    Class 769 Flex is a class of bi-mode multiple unit (BMU) converted by Brush Traction, and running in service with Northern Trains. The train is a conversion...
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  • industrial markets, such as locomotive building (through its ownership of Brush Traction) and diesel engine manufacture (through its ownership of Lister Petter)...
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    During the last 125 years, various Brush companies (Brush Switchgear, Brush Transformers, Brush Traction and Brush Control Gear) have existed on the Falcon...
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    British Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class 47s...
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  • lists every locomotive allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline...
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  • equipment Brush Engineered Materials, a metal manufacturing company Brush Motor Car Company, a defunct United States automobile company Brush Traction, a United...
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    bi-mode multiple unit being converted from Class 319 passenger trains by Brush Traction and Wabtec to carry parcels. In December 2018, Rail Operations Group...
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    British Rail Class 89 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    return it to the main line. The Class 89 locomotive was designed by Brush Traction, Loughborough to meet a specification issued by British Rail. BR subsequently...
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    part of the FKI Group under the name Brush-Barclay during 2007. Four years later, both Brush Traction and Brush-Barclay were acquired by the multinational...
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    British Rail HS4000 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    prototype high-powered mainline diesel locomotive that was built in 1967 by Brush Traction, Loughborough, as a technology demonstrator for potential future British...
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    two batches of 30 at BREL's Doncaster Works and Brush Traction, Loughborough respectively. However, Brush had already reached the maximum capacity of their...
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    British Rail Class 53 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    of Hawker Siddeley, who then purchased Brush Traction in 1957, making the licensed engines available to Brush. The prototype, wearing a livery of lime...
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    back-ups. Despite this, the HST-E effort was promptly aborted, while Brush Traction decided to de-prioritise work on the Class 89 after learning that it...
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    31 diesel locomotives, also known as the Brush Type 2 and previously as Class 30, were built by Brush Traction from 1957 to 1962. They were numbered in...
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    British Rail Class 92 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    of Brush Traction and ABB Traction. Parts construction was sub-contracted, with final construction and commissioning being undertaken at Brush's erecting...
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    a collaborative basis with private sector manufacturers, including Brush Traction, Metro-Cammell, and Metropolitan-Vickers. BREL also built numerous prototype...
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    Eurotunnel Class 9 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    locomotives built by the Euroshuttle Locomotive Consortium (ESCL) of Brush Traction and ABB. The class was designed for and is used exclusively to haul...
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  • (link) "Brush Traction | Wabtec Corporation". www.brushtraction.com. Archived from the original on 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2017-12-01. "Brush Traction | Wabtec...
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    British Rail Class 57 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    type of diesel locomotive that was remanufactured from Class 47s by Brush Traction of Loughborough between 1998 and 2004. The Class 57 was produced in...
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    A traction motor is an electric motor used for propulsion of a vehicle, such as locomotives, electric or hydrogen vehicles, or electric multiple unit trains...
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    Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512...
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    British Rail Class D2/11 (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    Rail Class D2/11 was a British class of locomotive designed in 1958 by Brush Traction and Beyer, Peacock & Company, which co-operated to produce five prototype...
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    back-ups. Despite this, the HST-E effort was promptly aborted, while Brush Traction decided to de-prioritise work on the Class 89 after learning that it...
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  • List of preserved British Rail Class 47 locomotives (category Brush Traction locomotives)
    Diesel Group NRM fleet list NRM website 47840 page D&EPG website Homepage Brush Type 4 Fund D1705 page Archived 2 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine Type 1...
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