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British Rail Class 60

Index British Rail Class 60

The British Rail Class 60 is a class of Co-Co heavy freight diesel-electric locomotives built by Brush Traction. [1]

42 relations: Blackstone & Co, British Rail Class 202, British Rail Class 37, British Rail Class 58, British Rail Class 92, Brush Traction, Charles Babbage, Class 60, CLIC Sargent, Colas Rail, DB Cargo UK, Drag freight, Edge Hill railway station, Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms, Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date, Horbury railway works, Hornby Railways, Hundred of Hoo Railway, Knottingley TMD, Lima (models), List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes, List of British Rail power classifications, List of British Rail unbuilt locomotive classes, Loadhaul, Mainline Freight, Merry-go-round train, Mizens Railway, Multiple working, Naming of British railway rolling stock, National Rail NR class, New Zealand DL class locomotive, Nottingham Eastcroft, Rolling stock of the Mid-Norfolk Railway, Round Oak Steel Terminal, Route availability, Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, Toton TMD, Trainload Freight, Transrail Freight, Whiston railway station, Wolverhampton Steel Terminal.

Blackstone & Co

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

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British Rail Class 202

The British Rail Class 202 (or 6L) diesel-electric multiple units were built from 1957-58 at Eastleigh and Ashford Works.

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British Rail Class 37

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

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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 92

The British Rail Class 92 is a dual-voltage electric locomotive which can run on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail.

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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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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.

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Class 60

Class 60 may refer to.

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CLIC Sargent

CLIC Sargent is a charity in the United Kingdom formed in 2005.

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Colas Rail

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

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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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Drag freight

A drag freight is a slow, high-tonnage railroad train, often carrying commodities such as coal or ore.

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Edge Hill railway station

Edge Hill railway station serves the district of Edge Hill in Liverpool, England.

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Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms

This page contains a list of jargon used to varying degrees by railfans, trainspotters, and railway employees in the United Kingdom, including nicknames for various locomotives and multiple units.

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Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway

The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, colloquially referred to as "the Joint Line"Joint Line Joy, in the Railway Magazine, June 2015 was a railway line connecting Doncaster and Lincoln with March and Huntingdon in the eastern counties of England.

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History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain The period from 1995 covers the history of rail transport in Great Britain following the privatisation of British Rail.

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Horbury railway works

Horbury, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England was the site of two wagon works constructed during the Victorian period of industrialisation.

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Hornby Railways

Hornby Railways is a British model railway brand.

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Hundred of Hoo Railway

The Hundred of Hoo Railway is a railway line in Kent, England, following the North Kent Line from Gravesend before diverging at Hoo Junction near Shorne Marshes and continuing in an easterly direction across the Hoo Peninsula, passing near the villages of Cooling, High Halstow, Cliffe and Stoke before reaching the Isle of Grain and the container port on its eastern tip, Thamesport.

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Knottingley TMD

Knottingley TMD is a Traction Maintenance Depot located in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England.

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Lima (models)

Lima S.p.A (Lima Models) was a brand of railway models made in Vicenza, Italy, for almost 50 years, from the early 1950s until the company ceased trading in 2004.

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List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes

This page lists every locomotive allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline network since 1948 (i.e. British Railways and post-privatisation).

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List of British Rail power classifications

The British Transport Commission, later British Railways, used engine power output to categorise its requirements for the new main line diesel locomotive fleet following the 1955 modernisation plan.

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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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Loadhaul

Loadhaul Ltd. was a railfreight operator based in the north-east of the United Kingdom.

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Mainline Freight

Mainline Freight was a trainload rail freight operator based in Islington, London, England with operations extending to Yorkshire in the north and Somerset in the west.

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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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Mizens Railway

Mizens Railway is a 7¼ inch gauge miniature railway located in a 10-acre site near Woking in Surrey, England.

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Multiple working

On the UK rail network, multiple working is where two or more traction units (locomotives, diesel multiple-units or electric multiple-units) are coupled together in such a way that they are all under the control of one driver (multiple-unit train control).

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Naming of British railway rolling stock

Since the invention of the very first railway steam locomotive in 1804, railway companies have applied names to their locomotives, carriages and multiple units.

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National Rail NR class

The NR class are a class of Australian diesel locomotive built by A Goninan & Co for National Rail between 1996 and 1998.

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New Zealand DL class locomotive

The New Zealand DL class of diesel-electric locomotives was manufactured for KiwiRail by CRRC Dalian with engines from MTU.

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Nottingham Eastcroft

Nottingham Eastcroft is a stabling point located in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Rolling stock of the Mid-Norfolk Railway

The Mid-Norfolk Railway has a large collection of heritage rolling stock.

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Round Oak Steel Terminal

Round Oak Steel Terminal is a railway freight terminal dealing in steel from the Round Oak Steel Works until 1982 and from other sources thereafter, in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England managed by Tata Steel Europe.

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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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Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet

Sir William Hepburn McAlpine, 6th Baronet, (12 January 1936 – 4 March 2018) was a British businessman who was director of the construction company Sir Robert McAlpine.

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Toton TMD

Toton Traction Maintenance Depot or Toton Sidings is one of the largest rail depots in the United Kingdom.

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Trainload Freight

Trainload Freight was the sector of British Rail responsible for trainload freight services.

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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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Whiston railway station

Whiston railway station serves the village of Whiston in Merseyside, England.

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Wolverhampton Steel Terminal

Wolverhampton Steel Terminal is a small intermodal depot in the city of Wolverhampton, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_60

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