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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Tyseley Station: gwrt1032
BR diesel Type 4 1Co-Co1 No D153 is seen at the head of a
Washwood Heath to Banbury special freight working as it passes the carriage
sidings on 15th February 1965. The '1Co-Co1' designation referred to the wheel
arrangement on the two bogies. If the steam designation had been adopted it
would have been 2-6-0-0-6-2 indicating that the leading wheel on each bogie was
un-powered but the others were powered.
The British Railways Class 46 class of diesel locomotive
were built from 1961-1963 at British Railways' Derby Works and were initially
numbered D138-D193. With the arrival of TOPS they were renumbered as Class 46.
In total Fifty-six locomotives were built with the first being withdrawn in
1977 and all of them withdrawn by 1984. The Class 46 design was structurally
the same as the preceding Class 45 and had the same Sulzer engine, but differed
in the fitting of a Brush generator and traction motors, in place of the
Crompton Parkinson equipment fitted to the Class 45. Courtesy 'Wikipedia website'.
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