18 photos of electric locos and trans, APT - E and Britain's first track machine.
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andrewstransport > Southern Rly 75.S, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon 1: Mon 8 October 2012. 4w third rail electric loco built by Siemens (8 / 1898) for the LSWR's Waterloo & City underground line. It opened in 1898 and was initially electrified at 500V DC, later raised to 600V.
andrewstransport > Southern Rly 75.S, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon 2: 23 April 2005
andrewstransport > North Eastern Rly No 1, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, 23 April 2005. 600hp, 600V DC Bo-Bo loco built in 1905 by Brush with electrical equipment by British Thomson Houston for the NER's freight only Quayside branch in Newcastle. Fitted with conductor shoes and a pantograph on the roof, as the branch had an overhead wire but a third rail in a tunnel. Worked on the branch with a sister loco until it closed in 1964.
andrewstransport > Southern Region 2090, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. 2-BIL EMU built by the Southern Rly at Eastleigh in 1937 for long distance semi fast services over newly electrified lines from London to Eastbourne, Portsmouth and Reading. 2-BIL = 2 car, Bi=Lavatory, ie one toilet per car.
andrewstransport > Southern Rly 11179, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. DMBTO from 4-COR express EMU 3131 built at Eastleigh in 1937 for the Portsmouth electrification.
andrewstransport > APT- E, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012 1. Power Car 1 of the gas-turbine Advanced Passenger Train - Experimental, built at Derby in 1972.
andrewstransport > APT-E, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012 2. Trailer Car 1 and Power Car 2, showing the articulated bogie.
andrewstransport > APT-E, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012 3. Power Car 2.
andrewstransport > RDB 975874 (LEV 1), Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. Leyland Experimental Vehicle 1 was built at Derby in 1979, with a Leyland National bus body on a four wheel railway chassis. The various Pacer classes are derived from this prototype. It even went to the USA for trials. NB the traffic indicators!
andrewstransport > D4157 (08927), Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012
andrewstransport > D2090 (03090), Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012
andrewstransport > Sentinel 4wDH 10077 / 1961, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. Former Tarmac loco.
andrewstransport > HD01, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. Former Brunner Mond Sentinel 4wDH 10003 / 1959
andrewstransport > Rowntree No 3, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. Ruston & Hornsby 4wDM 441934 / 1960.
andrewstransport > No 14, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon, Mon 8 October 2012. Three foot gauge 0-6-0 DMF built by Hudswell Clarke (DM 1274 / 1961). Worked at Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, until it closed in 2005.
Southern Rly 75.S, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon 1: Mon 8 October 2012. 4w third rail electric loco built by Siemens (8 / 1898) for the LSWR's Waterloo & City underground line. It opened in 1898 and was initially electrified at 500V DC, later raised to 600V.
andrewstransport > Southern Rly 75.S, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon 1: Mon 8 October 2012. 4w third rail electric loco built by Siemens (8 / 1898) for the LSWR's Waterloo & City underground line. It opened in 1898 and was initially electrified at 500V DC, later raised to 600V.
Southern Rly 75.S, Locomotion, National Railway Museum, Shildon 1: Mon 8 October 2012. 4w third rail electric loco built by Siemens (8 / 1898) for the LSWR's Waterloo & City underground line. It opened in 1898 and was initially electrified at 500V DC, later raised to 600V.
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