 D852 Tenacious at Old Oak Common, 1964 British Railways Type 4 "Warship" class diesel hydraulic locomotives were introduced in 1958. They were numbered in the series D800 to D832 and from D866 to D870 and had a maximum tractive effort of 52,400 pounds. The Western Region of British Rail had decided upon hydraulic transmission with lightweight alloy construction for its new diesel locomotives to replace "King" and "Castle" class steam locomotives. This was partly because of the stiff gradients between Exeter and Plymouth on the Paddington-Penzance route: why waste extra fuel on hauling additional weight of the locomotive up these gradients, it was reasoned. It quickly became apparent that the largest centre of expertise on diesel-hydraulic locomotives was in Germany and the Western Region (in view of post-World War II sensibilities) negotiated a licence with German manufacturers to scale down the German State Railway's "V200" design to suit the smaller loading gauge of the British network, and to allow British manufacturers to construct the new design. The new locomotives were substantially lighter than previous diesel-electric designs: a Class 44 "Peak" locomotive weighed 138 tons and required 8 axles to carry it; the D800s weighed less than 80 tons and only needed 4 axles. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (689x1000, 104 KB) Summary Later class 42. ...
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The Western Region may be: Western Ghana Western Region of British Railways This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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. ...
The British Rail Class 44 diesel locomotives were built by British Rail Derby Works from 1959 to 1960. ...
Each locomotive was powered by two Maybach 1000hp (D800-802) or 1100hp (D803-829, D831-832 and D866-870) MD650 engines coupled to Mekydro hydraulic transmissions (the technology of the time limited hydraulic transmissions to below 2000hp input, hence the need for two engines). D830 Majestic was equipped with two Paxman Ventura engines rated at 1100hp each. Each locomotive bore a name: for example D825 was Intrepid. All except D800 and D812 were named after Royal Navy vessels. D800 was named Sir Brian Robertson after the Chairman of the British Transport Commission at the time, and D812 was planned to carry the name Despatch but was eventually named Royal Naval Reserve 1859-1959. All except these two bore a subtitle "Warship Class" in smaller letters underneath the main name. The British Transport Commission was created by Clement Attlees post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in the UK. Its first chairman was Lord Hurcomb. ...
In 1960 British Rail introduced the Class 43 diesel hydraulic locomotives with a maximum tractive effort of 53,400 pounds. These were constructed by North British Locomotives, numbered in the range D833 to D865 and also bore names. Prejudice against hydraulic transmission in the higher echelons of BR's engineering divisions decreed that all the WR's diesel-hydraulics were non-standard and should be withdrawn as soon as possible. Added to this were practical problems modernising the D800s: because of the scaled-down bodyshell there was very little room inside for extra equipment. It was, for example, physically impossible to accommodate a compressor as well as an exhauster, so the locomotives were unable to haul newer designs of air-braked coaching stock. It also proved impossible to equip them with electric train heating equipment, for similar reasons, so they retained unreliable steam heat boilers to the end of their lives. The North British Locomotive Company (NBL) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow companies; Sharp Stewart, Neilson Reid and Dübs and Company creating the largest locomotive building company in Europe. ...
Head end power (also known as hotel power) is a method of providing electricity to the carriages of a train, usually the passenger carriages of a long distance hotel train. ...
By the end of 1972, all had been withdrawn. Around this time an approach was made to BR seeking to purchase Class 22 D6319. A price was agreed but before the new owners could retrieve their purchase, it was scrapped at Swindon Works. An embarrassed BR offered the would-be owners their choice of the remaining Warships (D810 Cockade/D812/D818 Glory/D821 Greyhound and D832 Onslaught) for the same price. D821 was chosen as it was in the best mechanical condition and thus became the first preserved ex-BR mainline diesel locomotive. D818 became a "gatekeeper" on display outside Swindon Works but was scrapped in 1985. D832 was sent to the Railway Technical Centre at Derby where it was used as a deadweight for various purposes until it too was secured for preservation later in the 1970s. The others were scrapped. D832 was restored to full operational order using many of the parts from D818 and it is doubtful if there would have been enough components available to restore both D818 (which was missing several major items) and D832 without an expensive search for compatible German items. As of late 2005 only D832 is operational. Jump to: navigation, search D6343 with Hymek D7072 at Old Oak Common, 1965. ...
Swindon railway works was built by the Great Western Railway in 1840 in the town of Swindon in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Diesel 10, an evil diesel featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine movie, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, is based on one of these, with a grabber on top. Diesel 10 is the main villian who features in the 2000 film Thomas and the Magic Railroad. ...
Thomas the Tank Engine. ...
Thomas and the Retarded Railroad is a movie made in 1936 based between the lines of the well known toilet brush company, Thomas and toilet town and its American spinoff, Spunk Town Station. ...
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