British Rail was the trading name, used from 1965, of British Railways, the state-owned company that ran rail transport in Great Britain from nationalisation in 1948 until privatisation in the 1990s; the organisation was dissolved in 1997. Alongside running trains it designed and built its own rolling stock. From 1948 that work sat with a Workshops Division of locomotive and carriage works, and from 1970 it passed to the subsidiary British Rail Engineering Limited. In this atlas the British Rail make covers vehicles that British Railways or British Rail itself ordered, designed or built, from the BR Standard steam classes of the 1950s to the diesel and electric traction that followed the 1955 Modernisation Plan.
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the state-owned company responsible for rail transport in Great Britain
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the state-owned company responsible for rail transport in Great Britain
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from its inception in 1948 to its privatisation in the 1990s
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the organisation was dissolved in 1997
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the state-owned company responsible for rail transport in Great Britain
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the state-owned company responsible for rail transport in Great Britain
In Group: Locomotive and Rolling Stock Manufacturers, Rail Engineering, workshops
it replaced the Workshops Division, which had existed since 1948
View the SourceBritish Rail Class 45 (Wikipedia)
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are a type of diesel locomotives built by British Railways' Derby and Crewe Works between 1960 and 1962
British Rail Class 73 (Wikipedia)
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The first six locomotives were built by BR at Eastleigh Carriage and Wagon Works and introduced to service during 1962
BR Standard Class 5 (Wikipedia)
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one of the 12 BR standard classes of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s
British Rail Class 47 (Wikipedia)
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built at Brush's Falcon Works in Loughborough and at British Railways' Crewe Works between 1962 and 1968
British Rail Class 08, Wikipedia
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diesel-electric shunting locomotives built by British Railways (BR)
BR Standard Class 9F, Wikipedia
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The last of the class, 92220 Evening Star, was the final steam locomotive to be built by British Railways, in 1960
BR Standard Class 7
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Three batches were constructed at Crewe Works
British Rail Class 44 (Wikipedia)
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The British Rail Class 44 or Sulzer Type 4 diesel locomotives were built by British Railways' Derby Works between 1959 and 1960
British Rail Class 46 (Wikipedia)
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They were built from 1961 to 1963 at British Railways' Derby Works
British Rail Class 03 (Wikipedia)
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230 were built at Doncaster and Swindon works between 1957 and 1962
British Rail Class 76 (Wikipedia)
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Between 1950 and 1953, a further 57 locomotives were built at Gorton locomotive works, Manchester, to a modified design; these were also classified EM1.
British Rail Class 77 (Wikipedia)
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They were built by Gorton Works in 1953 and 1954 for use over the Woodhead Line, between Manchester and Sheffield.
British Rail Class 85 (Wikipedia)
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is an electric locomotive that was designed and produced at British Rail
BR Standard Class 2 2-6-2T (Wikipedia)
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The first 20 engines were outshopped at Crewe Works, and intended for use on ex-London Midland and Scottish Railway routes
BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 (Wikipedia)
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Darlington works was responsible for building the entire fleet of 65 engines
BR Standard Class 3 2-6-0 (Wikipedia)
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The design and construction took place at the ex-Great Western Railway Swindon Works
BR Standard Class 3 2-6-2T (Wikipedia)
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The design and construction took place at the ex-GWR Swindon Works, along with the 2-6-0 tender engine version of the class.
BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 (Wikipedia)
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which was also responsible for building 70 of the 115-strong class
BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T (Wikipedia)
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130 of the class of 155 were built at Brighton
BR Standard Class 4 4-6-0 (Wikipedia)
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Construction was at the BR Swindon Works.
BR Standard Class 6 (Wikipedia)
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the new class was constructed at British Railways' Crewe Works between 1951 and 1952
BR Standard Class 8 (Wikipedia)
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Constructed at Crewe Works in 1954
British Rail Mark 1 (Wikipedia)
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the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways (BR) from 1951 until 1974
British Rail Mark 2 (Wikipedia)
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They were built by British Rail workshops (from 1969 British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL)) between 1964 and 1975
British Rail Class 09 (Wikipedia)
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The British Rail Class 09 is a class of 0-6-0 diesel locomotive designed primarily for shunting and short-distance freight trips along branch lines
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