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Last Updated 04/09/2007

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Motive power

Introduction to Motive Power

• BR Liveries
• British Locomotive Engineers and Superintendents

Steam Traction

• The Whyte Wheel arrangement
• LNER Steam Locomotive classification

Steam Locomotive Identification

 

Vintage Locomotives 1800-1923:

• Liverpool & Manchester Railway 0-2-2 ‘Rocket’   
• Great Western Railway Iron Duke 4-2-2

Grouping locomotives 1923-1948:

GWR

• GWR King Class 4-6-0  
• GWR Castle Class 4-6-0

SR

• SR Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2   
• SR West country Class/Battle of Britain class 4-6-2

LMS

• LMS 5MT (Black 5)
• LMS Princess Coronation (Duchess) class

LNER

• LNER A3  
• LNER A4
  

British Railways 1948-1960:

• BR J94 0-6-0St

Diesel/Electric Traction

• The 1954 Modernisation plan
• DMU’s

Diesel locomotive Identification

• Class 37's

Locomotive Sheds and Works

• Swindon works
• Crewe Works
• Darlington works
• Stratford Works
  

1948 BR shed codes

• Ex Southern Railway
• Ex GWR
• Ex London Midland and Scottish Railway
• Ex London North Eastern Railway

1954 BR Shed codes

• Southern Region
• Western Region
• London Midland Region
  
• Eastern Region
• North Eastern Region
• Scottish region

Tramway Traction

• Jarman's Electric Car
• The Luhrig Compressed Gas Motor
• The Connelly Oil Tractor