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British Rail Class D16/2

Index British Rail Class D16/2

British Railways Class D16/2 was a class of prototype diesel locomotive built by BR at Ashford Works and introduced in 1950–1951, with a third example being introduced in 1954. [1]

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Ashford railway works

Ashford railway works was in the town of Ashford in the county of Kent in England.

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Brighton railway works

Brighton railway works (also known as Brighton locomotive works, or just the Brighton works) was one of the earliest railway-owned locomotive repair works, founded in 1840 by the London and Brighton Railway in Brighton, England, and thus pre-dating the more famous railway works at Crewe, Doncaster and Swindon.

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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 40

The British Rail Class 40 is a type of British railway diesel locomotive.

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British Rail Class 50

The British Rail Class 50 was a class of 50 diesel locomotives designed to haul express passenger trains at 100mph.

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British Rail Class 55

The British Rail Class 55 was a class of diesel locomotive built in 1961 and 1962 by English Electric.

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British Rail Class 70 (electric)

The British Rail Class 70 was a class of three 3rd rail Co-Co electric locomotives.

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British Rail Class D16/1

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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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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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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English Electric diesel engines

English Electric diesel engines were manufactured by the English Electric company of the United Kingdom for both stationary and rail transport use.

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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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London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a borough in north west London, and forms part of Inner London.

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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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Oliver Bulleid

Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid CBE (19 September 1882 – 25 April 1970) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives.

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Pneumatics

Pneumatics (From Greek: πνεύμα) is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.

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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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Scrap

Scrap consists of recyclable materials left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials.

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Southern Railway (UK)

The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.

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Southern Region of British Railways

The Southern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948 until 1992 when railways were re-privatised.

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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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Vacuum brake

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

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Willesden

Willesden is an area in north west London which forms part of the London Borough of Brent.

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1Co+Co1

Under the British and Imperial classification scheme of locomotive axle arrangements, which is related to the UIC classification, 1Co+Co1 is a classification code for a locomotive wheel arrangement of two eight-wheeled bogies with an articulated inter-bogie connection, each with three axles powered by a separate traction motor per axle and with the fourth non-powered axle in an integral leading pony truck to reduce the axle load.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_D16/2

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