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British Rail Class 170, the Glossary

The British Rail Class 170 Turbostar is a British diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train designed and built by Adtranz, and later by Bombardier Transportation, at Derby Litchurch Lane Works.^[1]

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Train-related introductions in 1998

Abellio ScotRail

Abellio ScotRail, operating services under the name ScotRail, was the national train operating company of Scotland.

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Adtranz

Adtranz was a multi-national rail transportation equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Anglia Railways

Anglia Railways was a train operating company in England, owned by GB Railways and later FirstGroup, that operated the Anglia franchise from January 1997 until March 2004.

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Arriva Rail North, branded as Northern by Arriva (legal name Arriva Rail North Limited), was a train operating company in Northern England which began operating the Northern franchise on 1 April 2016 and inherited units from the previous operator Northern Rail.

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Automatic Warning System

Automatic Warning System (AWS) is a railway safety system invented and predominantly used in the United Kingdom.

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Basingstoke

Basingstoke is a town in Hampshire, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the River Loddon on the western edge of the North Downs.

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Birmingham New Street railway station

Birmingham New Street, also known as New Street station, is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, England, and a central hub of the British railway system.

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Bogie

A bogie (or truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany.

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Bombardier Turbostar

The Bombardier Turbostar (sold as the ADtranz Turbostar until 2001) is a family of diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger trains that was built by ADtranz and later Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2011. British Rail Class 170 and Bombardier Turbostar are Adtranz multiple units, Bombardier Transportation multiple units and train-related introductions in 1998.

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Botanic Gardens TMD

Botanic Gardens TMD is a traction maintenance depot in Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, England.

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Breckland line

The Breckland line is a secondary railway line in the east of England that links in the west to in the east.

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British Rail Class 153

The British Rail Class 153 Super Sprinter are single-coach DMUs converted from two-coach Class 155 diesel multiple units in the early 1990s.

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British Rail Class 156

The British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter is a diesel multiple unit passenger train.

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British Rail Class 158

The British Rail Class 158 Express Sprinter is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train.

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British Rail Class 159

The British Rail Class 159 is a class of British diesel multiple unit passenger trains of the Sprinter family, built in 1989–1992 by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL)'s Derby Litchurch Lane Works as Class 158. Before entering traffic, the original 22 units were modified at Rosyth Dockyard to Class 159 to operate services from London Waterloo to Salisbury and Exeter St Davids, replacing various locomotive-hauled passenger trains.

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British Rail Class 165

The British Rail Class 165 Networker Turbo is a fleet of suburban diesel multiple unit passenger trains (DMUs), originally specified by and built for the British Rail Thames and Chiltern Division of Network SouthEast.

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British Rail Class 166

The British Rail Class 166 Networker Turbo is a fleet of diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger trains, built by ABB Transportation at their Holgate Road Works in York between 1992 and 1993.

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British Rail Class 168

The Class 168 Clubman is a British diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train used on Chiltern Line services between London Marylebone and the West Midlands. British Rail Class 170 and British Rail Class 168 are Adtranz multiple units and train-related introductions in 1998.

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British Rail Class 171

The British Rail Class 171 Turbostar is a type of diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train built by Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works in England. British Rail Class 170 and British Rail Class 171 are Bombardier Transportation multiple units.

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British Rail Class 185

The British Rail Class 185 ''Desiro'' is a class of diesel-hydraulic multiple-unit (DHMU) passenger trains built by Siemens Transportation Systems in Germany for the train operating company First TransPennine Express.

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British Rail Class 196

The British Rail Class 196 Civity is a class of diesel multiple unit built for West Midlands Trains by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF.

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British Rail Class 205

The British Rail Class 205 (3H) diesel-electric multiple units were built by BR at Eastleigh from 1957 to 1962, and in service for 47 years from BR Southern Region to Connex South Central and finally to the Southern franchise.

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British Rail Class 207

The British Rail Class 207 (3D) diesel-electric multiple units were built by BR at Eastleigh in 1962.

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British Rail Class 222

The British Rail Class 222 Meridian is a group of 5- or 7- car diesel-electric multiple-unit high-speed passenger train capable of. British Rail Class 170 and British Rail Class 222 are Bombardier Transportation multiple units.

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British Rail Class 350

The British Rail Class 350 Desiro is a class of electric multiple unit passenger train built by Siemens Transportation Systems to its Desiro design between 2004 and 2014.

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British Rail Class 377

The British Rail Class 377 Electrostar is a British dual-voltage electric multiple unit passenger train (EMU) built by Bombardier Transportation on its Electrostar platform at Derby Litchurch Lane Works from 2001 to 2014. British Rail Class 170 and British Rail Class 377 are Bombardier Transportation multiple units.

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British Rail Class 385

The British Rail Class 385 AT200 is a type of electric multiple unit built by Hitachi Rail for Abellio ScotRail.

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British Rail Class 66

The Class 66 is a type of six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive developed in part from the, for use on UK railways.

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British Rail Class 755

The British Rail Class 755 FLIRT is a class of bi-mode multiple unit passenger train built by Stadler Rail for Greater Anglia.

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British Rail Class 86

The British Rail Class 86 is a class of electric locomotives built during the 1960s.

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British Rail Engineering Limited

British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) was the rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance subsidiary of British Rail.

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Brush Traction

Brush Traction was a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives in Loughborough, England whose operations have now been merged into the Wabtec company's Doncaster UK operations.

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Buffer stop

A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track.

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Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to locally as Bury is a cathedral and market town in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cardiff Canton TMD

Cardiff Canton TMD (Depo Cynnal a Chadw Treganna Caerdydd) is a diesel locomotive traction maintenance depot in Cardiff, Wales.

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Cardiff Central railway station

Cardiff Central (Caerdydd Canolog) is a major station on the South Wales Main Line.

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Central Trains

Central Trains was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated a variety of local and inter-regional trains from 2 March 1997 until 11 November 2007.

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Chase Line

The Chase Line is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of England.

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Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways (legal name The Chiltern Railway Company Limited) is a British train operating company that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996.

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Clacton-on-Sea

Clacton-on-Sea, often simply called Clacton, is a seaside town and resort in the county of Essex, on the east coast of England.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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CrossCountry

CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise.

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Crown Point TMD

Crown Point TMD is a train maintenance depot in Norwich, England.

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Croxton, Norfolk

Croxton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, within the district of Breckland.

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DB Cargo UK

DB Cargo UK (formerly DB Schenker Rail UK and English, Welsh & Scottish Railway), is a British rail freight company owned by Deutsche Bahn AG and headquartered in Doncaster, England.

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Dellner

Dellner Couplers AB is a Swedish original equipment manufacturer of train connection systems as couplers, gangway systems and dampers.

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Derby Etches Park

Derby Etches Park is a railway traction and rolling stock maintenance depot (T&RSMD) operated by East Midlands Railway, and situated in Derby, England.

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Derby Litchurch Lane Works

Derby Litchurch Lane Works, formerly Derby Carriage and Wagon Works, is a railway rolling stock factory in Derby, England.

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Derwent Valley line

The Derwent Valley line is a railway line from Derby to Matlock in Derbyshire.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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East Midlands Railway

East Midlands Railway (EMR; legally Transport UK East Midlands Limited) is a British train operating company owned by Transport UK Group, and is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise.

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East Midlands Trains

East Midlands Trains (EMT) was a British train operating company owned by the transport group Stagecoach, which operated the East Midlands franchise between November 2007 and August 2019.

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East Suffolk line

The East Suffolk line is an un-electrified 49-mile secondary railway line running between Ipswich and Lowestoft in Suffolk, England.

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Ebbw Valley Railway

The Ebbw Valley Railway (Rheilffordd Cwm Ebwy) is a branch line of the South Wales Main Line in South Wales.

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Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains

The electro-pneumatic brake system on British mainline railway trains was introduced in 1950 and remains the primary braking system for multiple units in service today, although London Transport underground trains had been fitted with EP brakes since the 1920s.

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Eversholt Rail Group

Eversholt Rail Group is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO).

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Exeter St Davids railway station

Exeter St Davids railway station is the principal and largest railway station in Exeter, also the busiest station in Devon.

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First class travel

First class is the most luxurious and most expensive travel class of seats and service on a train, passenger ship, airplane, bus, or other system of transport.

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First ScotRail

First ScotRail was a train operating company in Scotland owned by FirstGroup.

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First TransPennine Express

First TransPennine Express was a British train operating company jointly owned by FirstGroup and Keolis which operated the TransPennine Express franchise.

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FirstGroup

FirstGroup plc is a British multi-national transport group, based in Aberdeen in the north-east of Scotland.

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Four-stroke engine

A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft.

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Gmeinder

Gmeinder GmbH was a German locomotive and engineering company based in Mosbach.

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Govia Thameslink Railway

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is a British train operating company that operates the TSGN rail franchise.

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Great Eastern Main Line

The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a major railway line on the British railway system which connects Liverpool Street station in central London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including,,, and.

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Greater Anglia

Greater Anglia (legal name Transport UK East Anglia Limited) is a British train operating company owned as a joint venture by Transport UK Group and Mitsui & Co.

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Haymarket Depot

Haymarket Depot, also known as Haymarket Motive Power Depot and Haymarket Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD), is a railway traction maintenance depot situated inside Edinburgh, Scotland, next to Haymarket railway station and Murrayfield Stadium.

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Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

The Health and Safety at Work etc.

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Hull Paragon Interchange

Hull Paragon Interchange is a transport interchange providing rail, bus and coach services located in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England.

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Hull Trains

Hull Trains is an open-access railway operator in England owned by the multinational transport company FirstGroup.

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InterCity 125

The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125) or High Speed Train (HST) is a diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982.

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Ipswich

Ipswich is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England.

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KeolisAmey Wales

Keolis Amey Operations (Gweithrediadau Keolis Amey), Full legal name is bilingual including the Welsh name, as "Keolis Amey Operations / Gweithrediadau Keolis Amey Limited".

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Key worker

A key worker is a worker in an occupation given preferential treatment by government policy.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Leicester

Leicester is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England.

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Leicester railway station

Leicester railway station (formerly Leicester Campbell Street and Leicester London Road) is a mainline railway station in the city of Leicester in Leicestershire, England.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a major central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without.

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London Crosslink

London Crosslink was a passenger train service operated by Anglia Railways between Norwich and Basingstoke, using the North London Line to bypass central London.

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London Midland

London Midland was a train operating company in England which operated the West Midlands franchise between 11 November 2007 and 10 December 2017.

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London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.

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Maesteg Line

The Maesteg Line is a commuter rail line in South Wales from Bridgend to Maesteg.

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Manchester Piccadilly station

Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.

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Marshlink line

The Marshlink line is a railway line in South East England.

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Melton railway station (Suffolk)

Melton railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the village of Melton, Suffolk.

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Midland Mainline

Midland Mainline was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the Midland Main Line franchise between April 1996 and November 2007.

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Mobico Group

Mobico Group, formerly National Express Group, is a British multinational public transport company with headquarters in Birmingham, England.

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Modern Railways

Modern Railways is a monthly British magazine covering the rail transport industry, which was published by Ian Allan until March 2012 and Key Publishing since then.

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Moy, Highland

The village of Moy (A' Mhòigh) is situated between the villages of Daviot and Tomatin, in the Highland region of Scotland.

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MTU Friedrichshafen

MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH is a German manufacturer of commercial internal combustion engines founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach in 1909.

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National Express East Anglia

National Express East Anglia (NXEA) was a train operating company in England owned by National Express that operated the Greater Anglia franchise from April 2004 until February 2012.

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Networker (train)

The Networker is a family of multiple-unit passenger trains which operate on the UK railway system.

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Neville Hill TMD

Neville Hill is a railway train maintenance depot in Osmondthorpe, Leeds, England on the Leeds to Selby Line.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Northern Trains

Northern Trains, trading as Northern, is a British train operating company owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the previous operator Arriva Rail North had its franchise terminated at the end of February 2020.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.

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Nottingham Eastcroft

Nottingham Eastcroft is a light maintenance depot located in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Nottingham station

Nottingham station, briefly known as Nottingham City and for rather longer as Nottingham Midland, is a railway station and tram stop in the city of Nottingham.

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Oxted line

The Oxted line is a railway in southern England and part of the Southern franchise.

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Pacer (British Rail)

Pacer was the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses built between 1980 and 1987.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Platform 5

Platform 5 is a publisher that specialises in rail transport books and magazines.

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Porterbrook

Porterbrook is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO), created as part of the privatisation of British Rail.

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Privatisation of British Rail

The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.

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Rail (magazine)

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain.

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Rail transport periodical

This tabulation is for periodicals which do not have their own articles.

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Railway coupling

A coupling or coupler is a mechanism, typically located at each end of a rail vehicle, that connects them together to form a train.

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Railways Illustrated

Railways Illustrated is a British monthly railway magazine.

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Roudham

Roudham is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Roudham and Larling, in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

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Saltire

A saltire, also called Saint Andrew's Cross or the crux decussata, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross.

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ScotRail

ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government.

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ScotRail (National Express)

ScotRail was a train operating company in Scotland owned by National Express that operated the ScotRail franchise from March 1997 until October 2004.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the devolved government of Scotland.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; a' Ghàidhealtachd) is a historical region of Scotland.

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Selby

Selby is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse.

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Siemens Desiro

The Siemens Desiro is a family of diesel or electric multiple unit passenger trains developed by Siemens Mobility, a division of the German Siemens AG conglomerate.

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South West Trains

Stagecoach South Western Trains Limited, trading as South West Trains (SWT), was an English train operating company owned by Stagecoach, which operated the South Western franchise between February 1996 and August 2017.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)

Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in England.

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Sprinter (British Rail)

The Sprinter is a family of diesel multiple unit trains in use on the British railway system.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, officially known since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a major central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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Stansted Airport railway station

Stansted Airport railway station is on a branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the East of England and was opened in 1991 to provide a rail link to London Stansted Airport.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Stephen Hammond

Stephen William Hammond (born 4 February 1962) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wimbledon from 2005 to 2024.

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Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of.

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Stonehaven

Stonehaven (Steenhive or Stanehyve; Cala na Creige) is a town in Scotland.

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Straight engine

The straight engine (also called inline engine) is a configuration of multi-cylinder piston engine where all of the cylinders are arranged in a single row, rather than radially or in two or more cylinder banks.

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Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) is a regional transport partnership for the Strathclyde area of western Scotland.

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Swainsthorpe

Swainsthorpe is a village in Norfolk, England.

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The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.

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Today's Railways UK

Today's Railways UK is an English-based monthly magazine covering rail transport in Great Britain.

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Torque converter

A torque converter is a device, usually implemented as a type of fluid coupling, that transfers rotating power from a prime mover, like an internal combustion engine, to a rotating driven load.

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Toton TMD

Toton Traction Maintenance Depot or Toton Sidings is a large traction maintenance depot located in Toton, Nottinghamshire.

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Train operating company

In the railway system of Great Britain, a train operating company (TOC) is a railway undertaking operating passenger trains under the collective National Rail brand.

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Train Protection & Warning System

The Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) is a train protection system used throughout the British passenger main-line railway network, and in Victoria, Australia.

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TransPennine Express

TransPennine Trains Limited, trading as TransPennine Express (TPE), is a British train operating company that has operated passenger services in the TransPennine Express franchise area since May 2023.

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Transport for Wales Rail

Transport for Wales Rail Limited, branded as Transport for Wales and TfW Rail (and), is a Welsh publicly owned train operating company, a subsidiary of Transport for Wales (TfW), a Welsh Government-owned company.

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Transport Scotland

Transport Scotland (Còmhdhail Alba) is the national transport agency of Scotland.

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Turbo-diesel

The term turbo-diesel, also written as turbodiesel and turbo diesel, refers to any diesel engine equipped with a turbocharger.

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Tyseley TMD

Tyseley TMD is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Tyseley, Birmingham, England.

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Uckfield railway station

Uckfield railway station is the southern terminus of a branch of the Oxted Line in England, serving the town of Uckfield, East Sussex.

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Voith

The Voith Group is a German manufacturer of machines for the pulp and paper industry, technical equipment for hydropower plants and drive and braking systems.

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Wales & Borders franchise

The Wales & Borders franchise (Masnachfraint Cymru a'r Gororau) is a railway franchise for passenger services in the United Kingdom operated since 7 February 2021 by publicly owned operator, Transport for Wales Rail.

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Welding

Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, primarily by using high temperature to melt the parts together and allow them to cool, causing fusion.

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West Midlands Trains

West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a British train operating company.

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Wolverton railway works

Wolverton railway works, known locally as Wolverton Works or just The Works, was established in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in 1838 at the midpoint of the route from London to Birmingham.

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Woodbridge, Suffolk

Woodbridge is a port town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.

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ZF Friedrichshafen

ZF Friedrichshafen AG, also known as ZF Group, originally Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen, and commonly abbreviated to ZF, is a German technology manufacturing company that supplies systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_170

Also known as BR Class 170, British Rail Class 170/2.

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