🚆 SULZER ARRIVES AT STAVERTON 🚆 25262, a British Rail Class 25 Sulzer locomotive, arrives at Staverton Station on the South Devon Railway. The loco was travelling from Buckfastleigh to Totnes during the railway's recent Diesel Gala, carrying the headboard "The Ratcatcher". A total of 327 Sulzer Type 2 locos were built at Darlington, Derby and Manchester between 1961 and 1967. Primarily designed for freight, they also hauled passenger services and were nicknamed "Rats" due to the sense they cou

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

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22 reactions | The sound of a British Rail class 31 locomotive #31601 . At WyvernRail plc - The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway earlier last year. #uktrainspotting #trains #diesellocomotive #class31 #britishrailways #railway #railways #locomotive #heritagerailway #transport | Adrian Watson | Facebook

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🚂 British Rail Class 60 – The Last of the Heavy Haulers 🚂 Introduced between 1989 and 1993, the British Rail Class 60 represents the final generation of heavy freight locomotives built for British Rail. Designed and constructed by Brush Traction at Loughborough, these powerful machines were created to handle the heaviest bulk freight duties—hauling everything from steel and oil to aggregates across the UK’s rail network. Each Class 60 is powered by a miracle of British engineering – the Mirrle