The British Rail Class 81 is a class of AC electric locomotives that formerly operated on the West Coast Main Line of the London Midland Region of British Rail. Originally designated AL1, it was the first type of AC electric locomotive to be delivered to British Railways.
81004 at Birmingham New Street in 1984
A row of Class 81 and 85 locomotives waiting to be scrapped. The first and third locomotives from the left are Class 81s.
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRC&W) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divided by the boundary between the two places. The company was established in 1854.
BRCW makers plate, on display in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Compartment of luxury saloon coach built for Palestine Railways in 1922, now preserved at the Israel Railway Museum in Haifa
British Rail Class 33 at Swanage
DMU on the Belgrano Sur Line in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1966)