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Encyclopedia > British Rail Class 20
D8036 at Euston in 1963 in original green livery without yellow warning panels.
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D8036 at Euston in 1963 in original green livery without yellow warning panels.
D8012 at Willesden Junction yard in 1965 in green livery with yellow warning panels.
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D8012 at Willesden Junction yard in 1965 in green livery with yellow warning panels.
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Operating as a pair nose-to-nose, 20 050 and 20 168 run through Derby station with a breakdown crane, 1975.

The British Rail Class 20, otherwise known as an English Electric Type 1, is a class of diesel electric locomotive. They were built by English Electric between 1957 and 1968. A total of 228 locomotives in the class were built. The large number in part because of the failure of other early designs in the same power range to provide reliable working locomotives. They were originally numbered D8000-199 and D8300-27. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x664, 166 KB) Summary Author: Max Batten http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x664, 166 KB) Summary Author: Max Batten http://www. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (676x1000, 191 KB) Summary Author: Max Batten D8012 in the yard at Willesden Junction, 1965 http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (676x1000, 191 KB) Summary Author: Max Batten D8012 in the yard at Willesden Junction, 1965 http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x662, 134 KB) Summary Author: Max Batten 20050 and 20168 pull the Stewarts Lane breakdown crane (presumably for repair) through Derby station - 1975 http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x662, 134 KB) Summary Author: Max Batten 20050 and 20168 pull the Stewarts Lane breakdown crane (presumably for repair) through Derby station - 1975 http://www. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... English Electric was a 20th century British industrial manufacturer with a base in electric motors that expanded to include railway locomotives and aviation before eventual inclusion as part of GEC. // History The English Electric Company was formed in 1918 and, during that year and 1919, acquired control of Dick, Kerr... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

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Overview

Designed around relatively basic engine technology, each 73-ton unit provides 1000hp and can operate at up to 75mph. Designed to work light mixed freight traffic, the locomotives lack any train heating facilities. Early locomotives were fitted with disc indicators in the style of the steam era. When headcodes were introduced in 1963 the locomotive design was changed to incorporate headcode panels, although older locomotives were not refitted. Unusually for British designs the locomotive had a single cab. This caused serious problems with visibility when travelling nose first, though the driver's nose-first view is comparable to that on the steam locomotives which they replaced. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Great Western Railway No. ...


The Class 20 saw only limited service on passenger trains. A small number were fitted with a through pipe for steam heating, primarily for use in conjunction with a Class 37 locomotive on the West Highland Line. Otherwise, their use on scheduled passenger services was limited to use on summer relief services, particularly to Skegness and other holiday resorts in the east of England. D6712 at Liverpool Street, 1963 in BR green with yellow warning panels. ... The West Highland Line (Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean - Iron Road to the Isles) is one of the most scenic railway lines in Britain, linking the fishing port of Mallaig on the west coast to Glasgow. ... Skegness is a seaside resort town in Lincolnshire, England, with a permanent population of about 30,000. ...


The shift of light mixed freight to the road network left British Rail with an oversupply of small engines. The class 20s could however work in multiples and handle heavier traffic. Most spent the majority of their working lives coupled nose to nose in pairs to provide a more useful 2000hp unit and to solve the visibility problems.


Most have now (2005) been scrapped but a few remain with DRS and other minor and industrial operators. Several which are usually operating singly have been fitted with nose-mounted video cameras in order to solve the visiblity problems. The abbreviation Drs. ...


DRS' fleet of class 20/3s see frequent work across the country in pairs, or with class 37s on nuclear flask trains, which the company specialises in. In autumn 2005 a pair of class 20/3s was also utilised on a weedkilling train in the Anglia region.


In 2005 Harry Needle Railway Company (HNRC) acquired a large number of 20/0s and 20/9s from the DRS stored fleet. 20096 and 20905 were reinstated to mainline traffic and painted into a livery of two-tone grey. The pair worked passenger trains between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft as part of the ACORP gala day, the first time unmodified class 20s have worked a passenger train for many years. HNRC plan to return several more of the class 20s to use in the near future, for use both on the main line and at industrial sites.


Industrial use

Lafarge Cement No. 20168 Sir George Earle
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Lafarge Cement No. 20168 Sir George Earle

Several have been sold to industrial users such as Lafarge Cement. Some were used on the construction of the Channel Tunnel and Channel Tunnel Rail Link and some even made their way to France to work in industry there, although some of these were recently repatriated. Currently some class 20s owned by HNRC are working some trains within the Corus steel works at Scunthorpe. Some were also converted by Hunslet-Barclays to weedkiller units. These units would spray a weedkiller onto the track bed.
Image File history File linksMetadata 20168_Sir_George_Earle_2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 20168_Sir_George_Earle_2. ... The British terminal at Cheriton, from the Pilgrims Way. ... A Eurostar train on the CTRL, near Ashford Model showing the current redevelopment of the Kings Cross area with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminal behind the barrel-vaulted St Pancras Station on the left. ...


Media

In the 1995 Bond film, Goldeneye, a British Rail class 20 No. D8188 was used as an escape train, with the addition of armour plating, to give the impression of a Russian armoured Locomotive [[1]]. GoldenEye is the seventeenth James Bond film and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings British secret service agent, James Bond. ...

Goldeneye Class 20
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Goldeneye Class 20

Image File history File links Armour-train002. ... Image File history File links Armour-train002. ... GoldenEye is the seventeenth James Bond film and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings British secret service agent, James Bond. ...

Preservation

The first of the class D8000 preserved in original livery at the National Railway Museum in York.
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The first of the class D8000 preserved in original livery at the National Railway Museum in York.

The original member of the class is preserved as part of the National Railway Collection at the National Railway Museum in York and several others are preserved elsewhere. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2848x2136, 1604 KB) D8000, later known as BR Class 20 20050 at National Railway Museum, York. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2848x2136, 1604 KB) D8000, later known as BR Class 20 20050 at National Railway Museum, York. ... Locomotives arranged around the turntable in the Great Hall. ... Locomotives arranged around the turntable in the Great Hall. ... Locomotives arranged around the turntable in the Great Hall. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...


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