Type 4 Locomotives of British Rail (eBook)

Andrew Walker, John Walker (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
96 Seiten
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-8010-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The six principal classes of diesel locomotive that once made up the ‘Type 4’ classification – the 40, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 50 – were the survivors of a wider group that can trace its origins to the British Transport Commission’s Modernisation Plan of 1955. Designating a power output of between 2,000 and 3,000 hp, the type once contained representatives of several non-standard and one-off prototype builds, including the Warship and Western diesel-hydraulics, which between them originally numbered over 100 examples. The scrapping, exporting or accidental writing off of the numerous Type 4 prototypes in the 1960s and early 1970s – with the exception of the ten Class 44 Peaks – left a cohort of over 900 diesel-electrics that became the real backbone of the BR fleet, including the most numerous single mainline class ever built in Britain, the ‘Brush 4’ – or Class 47, as it later became.This pictorial collection presents a wide-ranging selection of images of Type 4 locomotives from the late 1970s to the present day, photographed and compiled by Andrew Walker and John Walker with contributions from fellow photographer Vaughan Hellam.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• ISBN-10: 1-4456-8010-6 / 1445680106
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4456-8010-1 / 9781445680101