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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

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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