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British Rail Class 37

Index British Rail Class 37

The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. [1]

138 relations: Alternator, Arriva Trains Wales, Avro Vulcan XH558, Barrow Hill Engine Shed, Blackstone & Co, Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, Bodmin and Wenford Railway, Bogie, Bridgend, British Rail, British Rail Class 23, British Rail Class 24, British Rail Class 25, British Rail Class 26, British Rail Class 27, British Rail Class 319, British Rail Class 33, British Rail Class 345, British Rail Class 373, British Rail Class 375, British Rail Class 40, British Rail Class 43 (HST), British Rail Class 47, British Rail Class 50, British Rail Class 55, British Rail Class 56, British Rail Class 58, British Rail Class 60, British Rail Class 66, British Rail Class 86, British Rail Class 97, British Rail corporate liveries, British Rail Engineering Limited, British railway rolling stock, Brush Traction, Caledonian Railway (Brechin), Cambrian Line, Carnforth, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Co-Co locomotives, Colas Rail, Crewe Diesel TMD, Crewe Heritage Centre, Crewe Works, Cumbrian Coast line, Darlington, DB Cargo, DB Cargo UK, DB Schenker, Devon, ..., Diesel locomotive, Diesel–electric transmission, Dieselisation, Direct current, Direct Rail Services, Dollands Moor Freight Yard, East Anglia, East Lancashire Railway, Eden Valley Railway (heritage railway), English Electric, English Electric diesel engines, Epping Ongar Railway, European Metal Recycling, European Rail Traffic Management System, Eurostar, Far North Line, Fort William, Highland, General Electric Company, Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, Great Central Railway (heritage railway), Great Central Railway (Nottingham), Great Western Railway, Harry Needle Railroad Company, Head-end power, Heritage railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994, InterCity (British Rail), Inverness, Inverness TMD, Kingsbury, Warwickshire, Kyle of Lochalsh line, List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes, Llangollen Railway, Long ton, Mallaig, Merry-go-round train, Mid-Norfolk Railway, Midland Railway – Butterley, National Railway Museum, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Network Rail, Newton-le-Willows, Nickname, Nightstar (train), North Norfolk Railway, North Wales Coast Line, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Northallerton, Northern (train operating company), Nuclear flask, Oban, Peak Rail, Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Port Talbot Steelworks, Prime mover (locomotive), Rail (magazine), Rail freight in Great Britain, Rail Operations Group, Railfan, Railway air brake, Rhymney line, Riley and Son, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, Rotherham, Route availability, Ruston (engine builder), Scotland, Shrewsbury TMD, South Wales, South Wales Main Line, Sprinter (train), Steam generator (railroad), Steam locomotive, Tamping machine, Telford Steam Railway, TOPS, Tractor, Train reporting number, Transrail Freight, UK Rail Leasing, Vacuum brake, Vulcan Foundry, Wales, Wensleydale Railway, West Coast Railways, West Highland Line, West of England line, York. Expand index (88 more) »

Alternator

An alternator is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current.

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Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales (Trenau Arriva Cymru) (ATW) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operates the Wales & Borders franchise.

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Avro Vulcan XH558

Avro Vulcan XH558 (military serial XH558, civil aircraft registration G-VLCN) The Spirit Of Great Britain was the last remaining airworthy example of the 134 Avro Vulcan jet powered delta winged strategic nuclear bomber aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force during the Cold War.

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Barrow Hill Engine Shed

Barrow Hill Roundhouse & Railway Centre, until 1948 known as Staveley Roundhouse & Train Centre, is a former Midland Railway roundhouse in Barrow Hill, near Staveley and Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

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Blackstone & Co

Blackstone & Co. was a farm implement maker at Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

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Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway

The Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway is a heritage railway in Bo'ness, Scotland.

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Bodmin and Wenford Railway

The Bodmin & Wenford Railway (BWR) is a heritage railway, based at Bodmin in Cornwall, 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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Bridgend

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (Pen-y-bont), meaning "the end (or head) of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital Cardiff and east of Swansea.

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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 23

The British Rail Class 23 were a class of ten Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives built by the English Electric Company (EE) in 1959.

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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 25

The British Rail Class 25 diesel locomotives were also known as Sulzer Type 2.

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British Rail Class 26

The British Rail Class 26 diesel locomotives, also known as the BRCW Type 2, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (BRCW) at Smethwick in 1958-59.

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British Rail Class 27

British Rail's Class 27 comprised 69 diesel locomotives built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) during 1961 and 1962.

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British Rail Class 319

The British Rail Class 319 is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit train capable of operating on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail.

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British Rail Class 33

The British Rail Class 33 also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.

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British Rail Class 345

The Class 345 is a Bombardier Aventra design electric multiple unit being manufactured for London's Crossrail.

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British Rail Class 373

The British Rail Class 373 or TGV TMST train is a French designed and built electric multiple unit that operate Eurostar high speed rail services from London to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel, part of the TGV family, it has a smaller cross-section to fit the smaller loading gauge in Britain, was originally able to operate on the UK third rail network and it has extensive fireproofing in case of fire in the tunnel.

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British Rail Class 375

The British Rail Class 375 is an electric multiple unit train that was built by Bombardier Transportation (previously Adtranz) at Derby Litchurch Lane Works, from 1999 to 2005.

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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 43 (HST)

The British Rail Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (formerly classes 253 and 254) power cars, built by British Rail Engineering Limited from 1975 to 1982.

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British Rail Class 47

The British Rail Class 47 is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction.

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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 56

The British Rail Class 56 is a type of diesel locomotive designed for heavy freight work.

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British Rail Class 58

The British Rail Class 58 is a class of Co-Co diesel locomotive designed for heavy freight.

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British Rail Class 60

The British Rail Class 60 is a class of Co-Co heavy freight diesel-electric locomotives built by Brush Traction.

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British Rail Class 66

The Class 66 is a type of six-axle diesel electric freight locomotive developed in part from the, for use on the railways of the UK.

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British Rail Class 86

The British Rail Class 86 is the standard electric locomotive built during the 1960s.

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British Rail Class 97

British Rail reserved the TOPS Class 97 designation for departmental locomotives, which were used for special or engineering duties.

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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 Engineering Limited

British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989.

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British railway rolling stock

This is a list of all types of rolling stock used in passenger services in the United Kingdom.

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Brush Traction

Brush Traction is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives, part of Wabtec Corporation, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, and situated alongside the Midland Main railway line.

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Caledonian Railway (Brechin)

The Caledonian Railway (Brechin) Ltd is a private limited company formed by a group of steam railway enthusiasts, the Brechin Railway Preservation Society, with the object of operating a railway service on the former Caledonian Railway line between Brechin and Montrose, Angus, Scotland.

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Cambrian Line

The Cambrian Line (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Cambrian) is a railway that runs from Shrewsbury (in Shropshire, England) to Aberystwyth (in Ceredigion) and Pwllheli (in Gwynedd), both on the west coast of Wales.

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Carnforth

Carnforth is a small town and civil parish near Lancaster in the north of Lancashire, England, situated at the north east end of Morecambe Bay.

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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and (at present) only station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Co-Co locomotives

Co-Co is the wheel arrangement for a diesel locomotive with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate motor per axle.

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Colas Rail

Colas Rail is a British rail freight company, formerly known as Seco Rail.

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Crewe Diesel TMD

Crewe Diesel Depot is a former diesel-electric locomotive Traction Maintenance Depot - formerly Crewe Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot or Crewe Diesel TMD - situated to the south of and visible from Crewe railway station.

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Crewe Heritage Centre

Crewe Heritage Centre is a railway museum located in Crewe, England.

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Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway.

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Cumbrian Coast line

The Cumbrian Coast line is a rail route in North West England, running from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness via Workington and Whitehaven.

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Darlington

Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.

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DB Cargo

DB Cargo is a European (mainly German) railway cargo carrier.

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DB Cargo UK

DB Cargo UK, formerly DB Schenker Rail UK and English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS), is a British rail freight company headquartered in Doncaster, England.

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DB Schenker

DB Schenker is a division of the German rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG that focuses on logistics.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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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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Dieselisation

Dieselisation or dieselization is a term generally used for the increasingly common use of diesel fuel in vehicles, or known to be said "Rise of diesel power" as opposed to gasoline or steam engines.

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Direct current

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

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Direct Rail Services

Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain.

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Dollands Moor Freight Yard

Dollands Moor Freight Yard is a railway freight yard near Folkestone in Kent, and was purpose built in 1988 for the Channel Tunnel.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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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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Eden Valley Railway (heritage railway)

The Eden Valley Railway (EVR) is a standard gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England.

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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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Epping Ongar Railway

The Epping Ongar Railway is a heritage railway run by a small number of paid staff and team of volunteers in south-west Essex, England.

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European Metal Recycling

European Metal Recycling is a global scrap metal company, founded in 1994 by Phillip Sheppard.

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European Rail Traffic Management System

The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is the system of standards for management and interoperation of signalling for railways by the European Union (EU).

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Eurostar

Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Paris and Rotterdam.

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Far North Line

The Far North Line is a rural railway line entirely within the Highland area of Scotland, extending from Inverness to Thurso and Wick.

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Fort William, Highland

Fort William (An Gearasdan "The Garrison") is a town in the Scottish Highlands, located on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe.

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General Electric Company

The General Electric Company, or GEC, was a major UK-based industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.

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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border of the Cotswolds, England.

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Great Central Railway (heritage railway)

The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway.

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Great Central Railway (Nottingham)

The Great Central Railway (Nottingham) (formerly known as Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre) is a heritage railway and Transport Museum on the south side of the village of Ruddington in Nottinghamshire.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Harry Needle Railroad Company

The Harry Needle Railroad Company (HNRC) is a railway spot-hire company, based at Barrow Hill Engine Shed in Derbyshire.

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Head-end power

In rail transport, head-end power (HEP) or electric train supply (ETS) is the electrical power distribution system on a passenger train.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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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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InterCity (British Rail)

InterCity (or, in the earliest days, the hyphenated Inter-City) was introduced by British Rail in 1966 as a brand-name for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history).

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Inverness

Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.

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Inverness TMD

Inverness TMD is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Inverness, Scotland.

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Kingsbury, Warwickshire

Kingsbury is a large village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England.

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Kyle of Lochalsh line

The Kyle of Lochalsh Line is a primarily single track railway line in the Scottish Highlands, from Dingwall to Kyle of Lochalsh.

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List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes

There have been a number of TOPS class numbers assigned to proposed locomotives that have not been built for one reason or another.

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Llangollen Railway

The Llangollen Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Llangollen) is a volunteer-run heritage railway in Denbighshire, North Wales, which operates between Llangollen and Corwen.

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Long ton

Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton,Dictionary.com - "a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu.

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Mallaig

Mallaig; (Malaig) is a port in Lochaber, on the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland.

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Merry-go-round train

A merry-go-round train, often abbreviated to MGR, is a block train of hopper wagons which both loads and unloads its cargo while moving.

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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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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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Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS;; "Dutch Railways") a Dutch state-owned company, the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Newton-le-Willows

Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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Nickname

A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place, or thing, for affection or ridicule.

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Nightstar (train)

The Nightstar was a proposed overnight sleeper service from various parts of United Kingdom to continental Europe, via the Channel Tunnel.

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North Norfolk Railway

The North Norfolk Railway (NNR) – also known as the "Poppy Line" – is a heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the coastal towns of Sheringham and Holt.

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North Wales Coast Line

The North Wales Coast Line (Rheilffordd Arfordir Gogledd Cymru), also known as the North Wales Main Line, is the railway line from Crewe to Holyhead.

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North Yorkshire Moors Railway

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England running through the North York Moors National Park.

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Northallerton

Northallerton is a market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Northern (train operating company)

Northern, the trading name of Arriva Rail North, is a train operating company in Northern England.

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Nuclear flask

A nuclear flask is a shipping container that is used to transport active nuclear materials between nuclear power station and spent fuel reprocessing facilities.

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Oban

Oban (An t-Òban in Scottish Gaelic meaning The Little Bay) is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.

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Peak Rail

Peak Rail is a preserved railway in Derbyshire, Central England, which operates a steam and heritage diesel service for tourists and visitors to both the Peak District and the Derbyshire Dales.

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Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway

The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Rheilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon) is a volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house (famed for its collection of miners' lamps) southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit National Coal Museum.

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Port Talbot Steelworks

Port Talbot Steelworks is an integrated steel production plant in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, capable of producing nearly 5 million tonnes of steel slab per annum, making it the larger of the two major steel plants in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.

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Prime mover (locomotive)

In engineering, a prime mover is an engine that converts fuel to useful work.

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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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Rail freight in Great Britain

The railway network in Great Britain has been used to transport goods of various types and in varying volumes since the early 19th century.

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Rail Operations Group

Rail Operations Group (ROG) specialize in ad-hoc hires particularly for locomotive and multiple unit moves.

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Railfan

A railfan, rail buff, or train buff (American English), railway enthusiast or railway buff (Australian/British English), trainspotter or anorak (British English, usually derogatory), is a person interested, recreationally, in rail transport.

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Railway air brake

A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium.

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Rhymney line

The Rhymney line is a commuter rail line running from Cardiff Central through the Rhymney valley via Heath and Llanishen in the north of the city, to Caerphilly, Bargoed and Rhymney.

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Riley and Son

Riley & Son (E) Ltd, is a railway locomotive engineering and refurbishment company, based in Heywood, Greater Manchester.

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Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns

Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd (RSH) was a locomotive builder with works in North East England.

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Rotherham

Rotherham is a large town in South Yorkshire, England, which together with its conurbation and outlying settlements to the north, south and south-east forms the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, with a recorded population of 257,280 in the 2011 census.

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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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Ruston (engine builder)

Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Shrewsbury TMD

Shrewsbury TMD is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) situated in Coleham, Shrewsbury, England.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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South Wales Main Line

The South Wales Main Line (Prif Linell De Cymru), originally known as the London, Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway or simply as the Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway, is a branch of the Great Western Main Line in Great Britain.

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Sprinter (train)

The Sprinter is a family of diesel multiple unit trains in use on the British railway system.

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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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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Tamping machine

A tamping machine or ballast tamper is a machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks to make the tracks more durable.

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Telford Steam Railway

The Telford Steam Railway (TSR) is a heritage railway located at Horsehay, Telford in Shropshire, England, formed in 1976.

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TOPS

Total Operations Processing System, or TOPS, is a computer system for managing the locomotives and rolling stock (railroad cars) owned by and/or operated on a rail system.

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Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver at a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction.

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Train reporting number

A train reporting number in Great Britain identifies a particular train service.

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Transrail Freight

Transrail was a trainload rail freight operator based in St Blazey, England, UK with a large operating area including Scotland, Wales and the west of England.

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UK Rail Leasing

UK Rail Leasing (UKRL) is an organisation based at Leicester Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) offering locomotive leasing and rail vehicle engineering services.

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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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Vulcan Foundry

The Vulcan Foundry Limited was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wensleydale Railway

The Wensleydale Railway is a heritage railway in Wensleydale and Lower Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England.

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West Coast Railways

West Coast Railways (WCR), is a railway spot-hire company and charter train operator based at Carnforth MPD in Lancashire.

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West Highland Line

The West Highland Line (Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean - "Iron Road to the Isles") is a railway line linking the ports of Mallaig and Oban in the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow in Central Scotland.

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West of England line

The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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37025, BR Class 37, British Rail Class 37 37025, British Rail Class 37/4, British Rail Class 37/7, British Rail Class 37/9, EE Type 3, EE type 3, Ee type 3, English Electric Type 3, English electric type 3.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_37

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