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British Rail Class 66

Index 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. [1]

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Advenza Freight

Advenza Freight was an English rail freight company based in Gloucester.

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Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) is a British trade union representing train drivers.

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Bank engine

A bank engine (United Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker) or helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a gradient (or bank).

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Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group is a European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

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BR Standard Class 9F

The British Railways BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed for British Railways by Robert Riddles.

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BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star

BR standard class 9F number 92220 Evening Star is a preserved British steam locomotive completed in 1960.

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Brentingby

Brentingby is a village in Leicestershire, England.The population is included in the civil parish of Freeby.

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British Nuclear Fuels Ltd

British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) was a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government.

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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 57

The Class 57 diesel locomotives were re-manufactured by Brush Traction, Loughborough between 1998 and 2004 from Class 47s.

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British Rail Class 59

The Class 59 Co-Co diesel-electric locomotives were built and introduced between 1985 and 1995 by Electro-Motive Diesel for operation in Great Britain.

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British Rail Class 67

The Class 67 locomotives are a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives which were built for the English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) between 1999 and 2000 by Alstom at Meinfesa in Valencia, Spain with drive components (engine, generator and traction motors) from General Motors' Electro-Motive Division.

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British Rail Class 70 (diesel)

The Class 70 is a six axle Co-Co mainline freight GE PowerHaul locomotive series manufactured by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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CargoNet

CargoNet AS is the primary operator of freight trains on the Norwegian railway system.

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Carrbridge railway station

Carrbridge railway station serves the village of Carrbridge, Highland, Scotland.

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Catch points

Catch points and trap points are types of turnout which act as railway safety devices.

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Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, 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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Cotswold Rail

Cotswold Rail was an English spot-hire company of shunting and mainline locomotives, based in Gloucester.

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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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Derailment

A derailment occurs when a vehicle such as a train runs off its rails.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Direct Rail Services

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

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Edward Burkhardt

Edward Arnold Burkhardt is a railroad executive, the founder and current chairman of Rail World Inc.

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Electro-Motive Diesel

Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry.

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EMD 710

The EMD 710 is a line of diesel engines built by Electro-Motive Diesel (previously General Motors' Electro-Motive Division).

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EMD Class 66

The Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) Class 66 (or JT42CWR) are Co-Co diesel locomotives built by EMD for the European heavy freight market.

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Euro Cargo Rail

Euro Cargo Rail is a French rail freight operator formed in 2005 as a subsidiary of English Welsh & Scottish (EWS).

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fastline

Fastline was created by six railwaymen who undertook a successful management buyout (MBO) of Eastern Track Renewals from British Rail in 1996.

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Freightliner Group

Freightliner Group is a rail freight and logistics company, formed in the United Kingdom in 1995, and now having expanded into Australia, The Netherlands and Poland.

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GB Railfreight

GB Railfreight is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Great Heck rail crash

The Great Heck rail crash, widely known as the Selby rail crash, was a high-speed train accident that occurred at Great Heck near Selby, North Yorkshire, England on the morning of 28 February 2001.

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Hatfield Colliery

Hatfield Colliery, also known as Hatfield Main Colliery, was a colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield, mining the High Hazel coal seam.

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Highland Main Line

The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland.

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HMNB Devonport

Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport), is the largest naval base in Western Europe and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy.

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HMS Argyll (F231)

The third and current HMS Argyll is a Type 23 'Duke' Class frigate.

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Iarnród Éireann

Iarnród Éireann, also known as Irish Rail in English, is the operator of the national railway network of Ireland.

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IE 201 Class

The Iarnród Éireann (IE) 201 Class locomotives are the newest and most powerful diesel locomotives operating in Ireland, and were built between 1994 and 1995 by General Motors.

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Immingham

Immingham is a town, civil parish and ward in the North East Lincolnshire unitary authority of England.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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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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Jarvis plc

Jarvis plc was a British company that provided support services to the British railway industry.

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Keith Norman

Keith Norman was general secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), the train drivers' trade union in Great Britain, from 2004-2011.

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Lickey Incline

The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.

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List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom

This list of railway accidents in the United Kingdom provides details of significant railway crashes in the United Kingdom involving railway rolling stock, but not other railway related incidents such as the Oxford Circus fire of 1984, the King's Cross fire of 1987 or terrorism.

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Loading gauge

A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.

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Loch Treig

Loch Treig (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Trèig, meaning loch of death) is a 9 km freshwater loch situated in a steep-sided glen 20 km east of Fort William, in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland.

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Logan, East Ayrshire

Logan (Scottish Gaelic: An Lagan) is a town in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland.

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London Thamesport

London Thamesport is a small container seaport in the Port of London on the River Medway, serving the North Sea.

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London, Ontario

London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.

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Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray is a town in Leicestershire, England, northeast of Leicester, and southeast of Nottingham.

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Metronet

Metronet Rail was one of two infrastructure companies (the other being Tube Lines Ltd) in a public-private partnership with London Underground.

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Muncie, Indiana

Muncie is an incorporated city and the seat of Delaware County, Indiana.

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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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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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Newport Docks

Newport Docks is the collective name for a group of docks in the city of Newport, south-east Wales.

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Non-road engine

Non-road engine (which may include non-road equipment and non-road vehicle) is an internal combustion engine or a gas turbine engine used for other purposes than being an engine of a vehicle operated on public roadways.

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North Blyth, Northumberland

North Blyth is a small settlement in south-east Northumberland, 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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Privatisation of British Rail

The Privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.

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Radio Electronic Token Block

Radio Electronic Token Block is a system of railway signalling used 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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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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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a monthly business journal covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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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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Signal passed at danger

A signal passed at danger (SPAD) in railway terminology of many countries, including Australia and the UK (where it is also known as either a SPAD or SPAR), occurs when a train passes a stop signal without authority to do so.

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Stobart Rail Freight

Stobart Rail Freight Ltd (trading as Stobart Rail) is a railway freight service operator in the United Kingdom.

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Stobart Rail Limited

Stobart Rail Limited (formerly W.A. Developments Ltd. and trading as Stobart Rail) is a railway maintenance and infrastructure engineering company in the United Kingdom.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.

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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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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system in Greater London, England.

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Wisconsin Central Ltd.

Wisconsin Central Ltd. is a railroad subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway.

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Write-off

A write-off is a reduction of the recognized value of something.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_66

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