British Rail Class 25
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The British Rail Class 25, also known as the Sulzer Type 2, is a class of 327 diesel locomotives built between 1961 and 1967 for British Rail. They were numbered in two series, D5151–D5299 and D7500–D
Class 25/3 in BR blue at Manchester Victoria in 1980.
25037 of the 25/1 subclass outside Wolverhampton in 1984
D7585 working as Derby station pilot in May 1965. The livery is BR green with small yellow warning panels.
25304 of the 25/3 subclass at Manchester Victoria in 1982.
British Rail Class 26
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The British Rail Class 26 diesel locomotives, also known as the BRCW Type 2, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company at Smethwick in 1958–59. Forty seven examples were built an
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…air louvers to the cantrail was the result of a comparison carried out at Inverness between a batch of Derby built Type 2s and a batch of BRCW Type 2s (Class 26 and Class 27), the tests targeting the air quality within the engine room. These tests revealed the location of the grilles on the Derby build allowed…
26037 at Carlisle in 1987
The first of the class (D5300) at Harringay in 1959, wearing original livery
26041 at Carlisle in 1991
Restored 26007 on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, 2021