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British Rail Class 53 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (706 words) |
 | British Rail assigned Class 53 to the single Brush Traction-built prototype locomotive Falcon. |
| Returning to British Railways in 1963, Falcon spent six months working out of Sheffield on both passenger and freight diagrams, after which its testing was completed. |
| In 1970, British Rail approached Brush Traction with a proposal to buy the (by now practically worthless) locomotive for its scrap value, which was accepted by the builder; the loco underwent a rebuild at BREL Swindon, emerging in corporate Rail Blue with full yellow ends and bearing the new number D1200. |
| British Rail Class 01 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (472 words) |
| British Rail's Class 01 diesel locomotives were a short wheelbase 0-4-0 design for limited clearance operations. |
| They carried their original livery of British Railways fl with fl-and-yellow "zebra stripe" warning ends and the original British Railways "unicycling lion" emblem until the end, and were the last locomotives in BR service to do so; fittingly, because Class 01 were also the first to carry that emblem. |
| Two survive in preservation; D2953 (at Peak Rail) and the first D2956 (on the East Lancashire Railway). |
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