British Rail Class 11 was applied to a batch of locomotives built from April 1945 to December 1952, based on a similar earlier batch.
LMS numbers 7120-7125 went to the War Department and then into LMS stock. LMS numbers 7126-7129 went straight into LMS stock, with 7129 being the last diesel shunter to be built for the LMS. British Railways continued to build the class from 1948-1952, being numbered M7130/1 and 12045-12138. 7020-7129, M7130 & M7131 became BR numbers 12033-12042. The whole class of 12033-12138 became Class 11. Locomotives up to 12102 were built at LMS/BR Derby and 12103-12138 at BR Darlington.
The engine is an English Electric 6-cyl, 10? bore by 12? stroke; 4-stroke, 6KT and the traction motors are 2 x EE506 axle-hung, nose-suspended, force-ventilated traction motors with 21.7:1 double reduction gear drive. The Main Generator is an English Electric EE801, 441 A at 430 V.
The enclosures displaced many tenant farmers from their lands and produced a class of wandering, unemployed “sturdy beggars.” The Elizabethan poor laws were an attempt to deal with this problem.
Britain’s overseas possessions (see British Empire) were augmented by the victorious outcome of the War of the Spanish Succession, ratified in the Peace of Utrecht (1713).
Domestically the long ministry of Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42), during the reigns of George I and George II, was a period of relative stability that saw the beginnings of the development of the cabinet as the chief executive organ of government.
The BritishRailClass03 locomotive is, together with Class 04, one of BR's most successful smaller 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical shunters.
The class, numbering 230 examples, was built by British Railways' Swindon and Doncaster works in 1957-1962 and numbered D2000-D2399 (later 03004 to 03399).
The engine is a Gardner 8-cylinder, 4-stroke 8L3 of 204 hp 152 kW connected to a Wilson-Drewry CA5 R7, 5-speed epicyclic with RF11 spiral bevel reverse and final-drive unit.
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