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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Tamworth High Level Station: mrthl1104
British Railways Type 4 Co-Co D1938 locomotive at the head
of an up express service passes through Tamworth's rebuilt High Level station
on 9th August 1969. Later classified as a Class 47, it was a diesel-electric
locomotive developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. In total 512 Class 47s
were built between 1962 and 1968 by Crewe Works and by Brush's Falcon Works,
Loughborough, which made them the most numerous class of British mainline
diesel locomotive. They were fitted with the Sulzer 12LDA28C twin-bank
twelve-cylinder unit producing 2,750 bhp (2,050 kW) - though this was later
derated to 2,580 bhp (1,920 kW) to improve reliability - and have been used on
both passenger and freight trains on Britain's railways for over 40 years.
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