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British Railways Brush Type 4 1Co-Co1 D142 passes through the remains of Kingsbury station on 9th August 1969

British Railways Brush Type 4 1Co-Co1 D142 passes through the remains of Kingsbury station on 9th August 1969. In the distance can be seen Kingsbury Junction signal box which was to close in September when Saltley Power Box came on line. This version of a Type 4 locomotive was built from 1961-1963 at British Railways' Derby works and were initially numbered D138-D193. With the arrival of TOPS they were renumbered to Class 46. Fifty-six locomotives were built. The first was withdrawn in 1977 and all of them were withdrawn by 1984. The Class 46 design was structurally the same as the preceding Class 45 build, 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. Along with the other Sulzer class 44 and 45 designs they are often referred to as Peaks, so named because the earliest of the Class 44 were named after mountains. Three have been saved from the cutter's torch and are being preserved.

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