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British Rail Class 100

Index British Rail Class 100

The British Rail Class 100 diesel multiple units were built by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited from 1956 to 1958, designed and built in collaboration with the Transport Sales Dept. [1]

21 relations: British Rail, British Rail Class 105, British United Traction, Buffers and chain coupler, Chasewater Railway, County School railway station, Crewe, Diesel engine, Diesel multiple unit, Eastern Region of British Railways, Epicyclic gearing, Gangway connection, Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Mid-Norfolk Railway, Midland Railway – Butterley, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), National Railway Museum, TI Group, Transmission (mechanics), Vacuum brake, West Somerset Railway.

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 105

The British Rail Class 105 diesel multiple units were built by Cravens Ltd. of Sheffield from 1956 to 1959.

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British United Traction

British United Traction (BUT) was a joint company owned by the Associated Equipment Company and Leyland Motors which produced railway equipment and trolleybuses.

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Buffers and chain coupler

Buffers and chain coupler (also called buffers and screw, screw coupler, or English coupler; in EU standards, it's two devices: buffers and draw gear and screw coupling) is the standard train coupling system used in Europe, outside the former Soviet Union.

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Chasewater Railway

The Chasewater Railway is a former colliery railway running round the shores of Chasewater in Staffordshire, England.

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County School railway station

County School is a railway station approximately one mile north of the village of North Elmham in the English county of Norfolk.

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Crewe

Crewe ('Cryw' in Welsh) is a railway town and civil parish within the borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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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 multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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Eastern Region of British Railways

The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings.

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Epicyclic gearing

An epicyclic gear train (also known as planetary gear) consists of two gears mounted so that the center of one gear revolves around the center of the other.

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Gangway connection

A gangway connection (or, more loosely, a corridor connection) is a flexible connector fitted to the end of a railway coach, enabling passengers to move from one coach to another without danger of falling from the train.

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Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company

Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (GRC&W) was a railway rolling stock manufacturer based at Gloucester, England; from 1860 until 1986.

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Mid-Norfolk Railway

The Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain.

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Midland Railway – Butterley

The Midland Railway – Butterley is a heritage railway at Butterley, near Ripley in Derbyshire.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society.

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TI Group

TI Group plc (formerly Tube Investments) was a holding company for specialised engineering companies.

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Transmission (mechanics)

A transmission is a machine in a power transmission system, which provides controlled application of the power.

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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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West Somerset Railway

The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_100

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