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British Rail Class 28

Index British Rail Class 28

The British Rail Class 28 (Metro-Vick Type 2) diesel locomotives, or 'Metrovicks' as they were popularly known, were built as part of the British Railways 1955 Modernisation Plan. [1]

48 relations: Barrow-in-Furness, Bogie, Bowesfield Works, British Rail, British Rail Class 08, British Rail Class 15, British Rail Class 24, British Rail Class 31, British Rail Class D3/3, British Rail corporate liveries, British Rail Research Division, Characters in The Railway Series, CIÉ, CIE 001 Class, Co-Bo, Crossley, Diesel locomotive, Diesel–electric transmission, Direct current, East Lancashire Railway, English Electric, Exhaust gas, Exhaust pulse pressure charging, Four-stroke engine, Glasgow, Heljan, History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994, Hornby Railways, Ian Allan Publishing, Locomotive wheelslip, London, London Midland Region of British Railways, Metropolitan-Vickers, Millbrook, Bedfordshire, OO gauge, Rail (magazine), Route availability, Steam generator (railroad), Stockton-on-Tees, The Railway Series, Thomas & Friends, Tribology, Two-stroke engine, V8 engine, Vacuum brake, WAGR X class, Western Australian Government Railways, Wilbert Awdry.

Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness, commonly known as Barrow, is a town and borough in Cumbria, England.

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Bogie

A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.

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Bowesfield Works

Bowesfield Works was a railway locomotive manufacturing plant in Stockton-on-Tees.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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British Rail Class 08

The British Rail (BR) Class 08 is a class of diesel-electric shunting locomotive.

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British Rail Class 15

The British Rail Class 15 diesel locomotives, also known as the BTH Type 1, were designed by British Thomson-Houston, and built by the Yorkshire Engine Company and the Clayton Equipment Company, between 1957 and 1961.

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British Rail Class 24

The British Railways class 24 diesel locomotives, also known as the Sulzer Type 2, were built from 1958 to 1961.

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British Rail Class 31

The British Rail Class 31 diesel locomotives, also known as the Brush Type 2 and originally as Class 30, were built by Brush Traction from 1957-62.

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British Rail Class D3/3

British Rail Class D3/3 was a 0-6-0 shunting locomotive built by British Rail at their Derby Works in England.

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British Rail corporate liveries

The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex.

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British Rail Research Division

The British Rail Research Division came into being in 1964 directly under the control of the British Railways Board, moving into purpose-built premises at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby.

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Characters in The Railway Series

Many characters have appeared in the books of The Railway Series by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry, and in the spin-off television series, Thomas and Friends.

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CIÉ

Córas Iompair Éireann (Irish Transport System), or CIÉ, is a statutory corporation of the Republic of Ireland, answerable to the Irish Government and responsible for most public transport in Ireland and – jointly with its Northern Ireland counterpart, the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company – the railway service between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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CIE 001 Class

The Córas Iompair Éireann 001 Class locomotive was manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers at their Dukinfield Works in Manchester.

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Co-Bo

Co-Bo or Co′Bo′ is a wheel arrangement in the UIC classification system for railway locomotives.

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Crossley

Crossley, based in Manchester, United Kingdom, was a pioneering company in the production of internal combustion engines.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Diesel–electric transmission

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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East Lancashire Railway

The East Lancashire Railway is a heritage railway line in north west England which runs between Heywood in Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall (Lancashire) with intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street,, Summerseat, Ramsbottom all in Greater Manchester, and Irwell Vale in Lancashire.

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English Electric

The English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I at the end of 1918.

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Exhaust gas

Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, petrol, biodiesel blends, diesel fuel, fuel oil, or coal.

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Exhaust pulse pressure charging

Exhaust pulse pressure charging (EPPC) is a system for supercharging two-stroke diesel engines of the loop-scavenge type.

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Four-stroke engine

A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Heljan

Heljan A/S is a Danish model railway company based in Søndersø.

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History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994

The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994 covers the period when the British railway system was nationalised under the name of British Rail (initially known as British Railways), until its eventual privatisation in 1994.

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Hornby Railways

Hornby Railways is a British model railway brand.

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Ian Allan Publishing

Ian Allan Publishing is a UK publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.

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Locomotive wheelslip

Locomotive wheelslip is an event that affects railway motive power usually when starting from stationary, but can also affect an engine in motion.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Midland Region of British Railways

The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR) and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England and Wales.

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Metropolitan-Vickers

Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.

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Millbrook, Bedfordshire

Millbrook is a small village and civil parish near Bedford, England.

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OO gauge

OO gauge or OO scale (also spelled 00 gauge and 00 scale) model railways are the most popular standard-gauge model railway tracks in the United Kingdom.

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Rail (magazine)

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain.

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Route availability

Route Availability (RA) is the system by which the permanent way and supporting works (bridges, embankments, etc.) of the railway network of Great Britain are graded.

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Steam generator (railroad)

A steam generator is a type of boiler used to produce steam for climate control and potable water heating in railroad passenger cars.

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Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in the ceremonial county of County Durham, North East England.

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The Railway Series

The Railway Series is a set of story books about a railway system located on the fictional Island of Sodor.

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Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends or Thomas the Tank Engine; also known as Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! in the twenty-second season) is a British children's television series.

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Tribology

Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion.

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Two-stroke engine

A two-stroke (or two-cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine which completes a power cycle with two strokes (up and down movements) of the piston during only one crankshaft revolution.

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V8 engine

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder V configuration engine with the cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two sets (or banks) of four, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft.

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Vacuum brake

The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s.

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WAGR X class

The X class was a class of diesel locomotives built by Beyer, Peacock and Company and Metropolitan-Vickers, Bowesfield Works, Stockton-on-Tees for the Western Australian Government Railways between 1954 and 1956.

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Western Australian Government Railways

Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) was the operator of railway services in the state of Western Australia between October 1890 and June 2003.

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Wilbert Awdry

Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997) was an English Anglican cleric, railway enthusiast, and children's author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_28

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