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🚂 British Rail Class 58 – The Modular Workhorse of the 1980s 🚂 The Class 58 might not have had the glamour of a Deltic or the fame of a Class 37, but it earned its place in British railway history through sheer reliability and innovation. Introduced in the early 1980s, these powerful locomotives were designed with a modular, easy-to-maintain structure — a first for BR at the time. From heavy coal trains rumbling through the Midlands to freight duties across the network, the Class 58 proved its

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Class 09 (09001) on passenger train duties. This shunter was built in 1959 The British Rail Class 09 is designed for shunting and short-distance freight trips along branch lines. So it is ideally suited for occasionally pulling passenger carriages along this Peak Rail heritage line. These locomotives are nearly identical to the more numerous Class 08 shunting locomotives but have different gearing, giving a higher top speed at the expense of a lower tractive effort. This superbly restored locomo

28K views · 338 reactions |  Another of our Class 314 trains heads for the scrapyard. Here's one being hauled away by rail yesterday from our Yoker Depot for the last time, after almost 40 years of service. | ScotRail | Facebook

British Rail class 73 (73001) at Wirksworth station in Derbyshire. This electro-diesel locomotive was built in 1962 at the BR Eastleigh Works. This type of locomotive can operate on DC third rail power supply, or an onboard diesel engine to allow it to be used on non-electrified routes. There are quite a few class 73 locomotives still in main line service. A few have been preserved, but they only operate using their diesel engine, as no heritage railway has a third rail power set up. #trains #di