Brush Traction works in Loughborough, United Kingdom.

Brush Traction is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (936x614, 117 KB) Summary taken by me. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (936x614, 117 KB) Summary taken by me. ... Loughboroughs carillon Loughborough parish church The Brush engineering works Loughborough (pronounced LUFF-burra or LUFF-bruh) is the largest town in Leicestershire, England (the City of Leicester excluded), the population of the town in 2001 was assesed at 55,492. ... 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. ... Loughboroughs carillon Loughborough parish church The Brush engineering works Loughborough (pronounced LUFF-burra or LUFF-bruh) is the largest town in Leicestershire, England (the City of Leicester excluded), the population of the town in 2001 was assesed at 55,492. ... Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a landlocked county in central England. ...

In 1865, Henry Hughes, who was a timber merchant engineer, began building horse-drawn tramcars and railway rolling stock, being known as Henry Hughes and Company. Records are very sparse, but it seems that he began producing steam locomotives about 1867 for the Paris Exhibition. His main business, however, was "tram engines", lightweight steam engines which drew passenger cars, made possible by the Tramways Act 1870. Among these was "The Pioneer" for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway. These were distinct from those tramcars where the boiler and mechanism was integral with the passenger car. In 1804 the British Parliament approved the laying of a railway line between Swansea and Oystermouth in South Wales, and in the autumn of that year the first tracks were laid. ...

In 1883, due to a trade recession, the company was taken over by Norman Scott Russell and renamed the Falcon Railway Plant Works. Again there are few records, but the factory remained busy with both railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock. Among these were tank locomotives for Ireland, Spain and the Azores. Some were subcontracts from other firms, such as Kerr Stuart, at that time in Glasgow. A tank locomotive (occasionally tank engine, especially in England, notably used in reference to Thomas the Tank Engine) is a steam locomotive that carries its own fuel and water on it, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. ... Kerr Stuart Tatoo-type locomotive. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ...

In 1889 the assets were taken over by the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, which had been set up as the British arm of Charles Francis Brush's Brush Electric Company in America. It then became known as the Brush Electrical Engineering Company. Charles Francis Brush (March 17, 1849 - June 15, 1929); a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. ...

Class 47 diesel locomotive, no. 47815 'Abertawe Landore' at York Railfest on 3 June 2004. This locomotive is operated by First Great Western, and is painted in original British Railways two-tone green livery.

Between 1901 and 1905 the Brushmobile electric car was developed using a Vauxhall Motors engine, although only six were built. Nearly 100 buses, plus some lorries were built using French engines until 1907. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 636 KB)BR Class 47, no. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 636 KB)BR Class 47, no. ... thank god for class 57s that took the bodies of 47s - NO MORE 47 FREAKS!!! POGO, LIVES IN YORK REAL NAME - PAUL ILLINGSWORTH GED THE TRAMP, BIRMINGHAM REAL NAME - GERALD IZAAC HAPPLE ADDRESS - 378 GILLIOTT ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM PHONE NO - 0121 454 4679 (PLEASE CONTACT ABOVE FOR GEN... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... First Great Western is a British train operating company owned by First Group, which operates services principally on the Great Western Main Line. ... Vauxhall Motors is a British car company, a subsidiary of General Motors. ...

In all, about 250 steam locomotives were built in addition to the tram engines. Production finished after the 1914-18 War and the company concentrated on transport-related electrical equipment, including tramcars, trolleybuses and battery-operated vehicles. The coachworks continued with, after World War II, omnibus bodies mounted on Daimler chassis using Gardner five-cylinder diesel engines and Daimler preselector gearboxes. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia Serbia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... A frontal view of the Tramcar. ... Å koda 14 Tr trolleybus in Vilnius A trolleybus (also known as electric bus, trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Daimler has, since 1896, been the motor car marque of the British Daimler Motor Company, based in Coventry. ... Gardner may be: // Towns Gardner, Illinois Gardner, Kansas Gardner, Massachusetts Gardner, North Dakota Gardner, Wisconsin Glen Gardner, New Jersey Geographical features Gardner (crater) on the Moon Gardner Canal in British Columbia Gardner Inlet in Antarctica Gardner Pinnacles in Hawaii Institutions Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum... A preselector gearbox is a type of gearbox used on a variety of vehicles, more commonly until around the 1950s. ...

Close to Derby and its railway workshops, it retained its contacts with the railway and in 1947 joined with W.G.Bagnall to produce diesel locomotives. When British Railways began to replace its fleet of steam engines, Brush entered the market for main line diesel-electric locomotives. It became known as Brush Traction in 1991 and is now part of FKI Energy Technologies. Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ... British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) Derby consisted of two separate works; Derby Loco works, and Derby Carriage and Wagon works. ... W.G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England. ... 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. ...

Brush has manufactured various diesel and electric locomotives for British Rail. These are listed below: 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. ...

• Class 20 "English Electric Type 1" diesel electric locomotive
• Class 31 "Brush Type 2" mixed-traffic diesel locomotive
• Class 43 HST diesel locomotive
• Class 47 "Brush Type 4" mixed-traffic diesel locomotive
• Class 53 "Falcon" prototype diesel locomotive
• Class 57 re-engineered diesel locomotive (rebuilt from Class 47)
• Class 60 heavy freight diesel locomotive
• Class 89 prototype electric locomotive
• Class 92 dual-voltage electric locomotive

It has also manufactured the electric locomotives operated by Eurotunnel through the Channel Tunnel. D8036 at Euston in 1963 in original green livery without yellow warning panels. ... Class 31, no. ... HST power car 43 127 is shown here crossing the Kennet and Avon Canal. ... thank god for class 57s that took the bodies of 47s - NO MORE 47 FREAKS!!! POGO, LIVES IN YORK REAL NAME - PAUL ILLINGSWORTH GED THE TRAMP, BIRMINGHAM REAL NAME - GERALD IZAAC HAPPLE ADDRESS - 378 GILLIOTT ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM PHONE NO - 0121 454 4679 (PLEASE CONTACT ABOVE FOR GEN... British Rail assigned Class 53 to the single Brush Traction-built prototype locomotive Falcon. ... Class 57, no. ... Class 60s at Peak Forest In the mid 1980s British Rail was faced with an aging fleet of freight locomotives which required overhaul or replacement. ... Class 89, no. ... Class 92, no. ... Eurotunnel plc (in the UK) and Eurotunnel SA (in France) make up the Eurotunnel Group, founded in August 1986, which manages and operates the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France. ... Map of the Channel Tunnel. ...

• Eurotunnel Class 9

In addition, Brush Traction has manufactured and exported the following locomotive types: Class 9/0 No. ...

• EF class heavy freight electric locomotive (New Zealand Railways)
• Class 18 shunter locomotives for Malayan Railways in 1978

The EF Class (previously classified Class 30) are the only mainline electric locomotives in service on New Zealands national rail network. ... // National Rail Network The national rail network (currently owned by a State-Owned Enterprise, the New Zealand Railways Corporation) was constructed largely by government entities from 1863 onwards. ... A train stopping at a KTMB railway station in Kuala Lipis, Pahang Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) or the Malayan Railway is the main rail operator in Peninsular Malaysia. ...

Reference

• Lowe, J.W., (1989) British Steam Locomotive Builders, Guild Publishing

External links

• Brush Traction website