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British Rail Class 50, the Glossary

The British Rail Class 50 is a class of diesel locomotives designed to haul express passenger trains at.^[1]

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Railway locomotives introduced in 1967

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales (ATW; Trenau Arriva Cymru) was a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operated the Wales & Borders franchise.

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Barrow Hill Roundhouse, until 1948 known as Staveley Engine Shed, is a former Midland Railway roundhouse in Barrow Hill, near Staveley and Chesterfield, Derbyshire, now serving as a railway heritage centre.

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Bath Spa railway station

Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath in Somerset, England.

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Birmingham International railway station

Birmingham International is a railway station known by code "BHI" in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands of England, just east of Birmingham.

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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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Blaenavon

Blaenavon (Blaenafon) is a town and community in Torfaen county borough, Wales, high on a hillside on the source of the Afon Lwyd.

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Bodmin and Wenford Railway

The Bodmin and Wenford Railway is a heritage railway at Bodmin in Cornwall, England.

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Bristol Bath Road depot

Bristol Bath Road depot was a railway traction maintenance depot in central Bristol, England, which was in use from 1852 until 1995.

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Bristol Temple Meads railway station

Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England.

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British N gauge

British N gauge is a model railway scale and gauge, rolling stock is to a scale of 1:148, teladesign.com track is width as with all other N gauges making track and rolling stock approximately 10% out of scale with respect to each other.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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British Rail Class 117

The British Rail Class 117 diesel multiple units (DMUs) were built by Pressed Steel from 1959 to 1961.

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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 37

The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail Class 37 are British Rail diesel locomotives, co-Co locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain, English Electric locomotives, standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain and Vulcan Foundry locomotives.

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British Rail Class 40

The British Rail Class 40 is a type of British railway diesel electric locomotive. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail Class 40 are British Rail diesel locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain, English Electric locomotives, standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain and Vulcan Foundry locomotives.

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British Rail Class 47

The British Rail Class 47 or Brush Type 4 is a class of diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail Class 47 are British Rail diesel locomotives, co-Co locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain and standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain.

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British Rail Class 52

The British Rail Class 52 is a class of 74 Type 4 diesel-hydraulic locomotives built for the Western Region of British Railways between 1961 and 1964. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail Class 52 are British Rail diesel locomotives and standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain.

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British Rail Class 55

The British Rail Class 55, also known as a Deltic, or English Electric Type 5, is a class of diesel locomotive built in 1961 and 1962 by English Electric for British Railways. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail Class 55 are British Rail diesel locomotives, co-Co locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain, English Electric locomotives, standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain and Vulcan Foundry locomotives.

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British Rail Class 87

The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive designed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) between 1973 and 1975. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail Class 87 are standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain.

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British Rail corporate liveries

The history of British Rail's corporate liveries is quite complex.

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British Rail DP2

DP2, meaning Development Prototype number 2, was a prototype Type 4 mainline diesel locomotive, built by English Electric in 1962. British Rail Class 50 and British Rail DP2 are British Rail diesel locomotives, co-Co locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain, English Electric locomotives, standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain and Vulcan Foundry locomotives.

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British Rail Mark 2

The Mark 2 family of railway carriages are British Rail's second design of carriages.

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British Railways Board

The British Railways Board (BRB) was a nationalised industry in the United Kingdom that operated from 1963 to 2001.

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British Transport Commission

The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).

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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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Buckfastleigh

Buckfastleigh is a market town and civil parish in Devon, England situated beside the Devon Expressway (A38) at the edge of the Dartmoor National Park.

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C F Booth

C F Booth Ltd is a family-owned scrap metal and recycling business based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

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Carlisle railway station

Carlisle railway station, or Carlisle Citadel, is a Grade II* listed railway station serving the cathedral city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England.

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Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Chesterfield is a market and industrial town in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England.

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Co-Co locomotive

Co-Co is the wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate traction motor per axle. British Rail Class 50 and Co-Co locomotive are co-Co locomotives.

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Comboios de Portugal

CP — Comboios de Portugal, EPE (CP; English: Trains of Portugal) is a state-owned company which operates passenger trains in Portugal.

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Conservation and restoration of rail vehicles

Conservation and restoration of rail vehicles aims to preserve historic rail vehicles.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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CP Class 1400

The CP Class 1400 are a series of 67 diesel-electric locomotives built for the Portuguese Railways (CP) between 1967 and 1969. British Rail Class 50 and CP Class 1400 are English Electric locomotives, railway locomotives introduced in 1967 and Vulcan Foundry locomotives.

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Crewe Diesel TMD

Crewe Diesel Depot is a former diesel-electric locomotive traction maintenance depot, formerly Crewe Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot or Crewe Diesel TMD, situated to the south of and visible from Crewe railway station.

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Crewe railway station

Crewe railway station serves the railway town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England.

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Crewe Works

Crewe Works is a British railway engineering facility located in the town of Crewe, Cheshire.

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Dapol

Dapol Ltd is a model railway manufacturer based in Chirk, Wales.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine.

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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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Doncaster Works

Doncaster Railway Works is a railway workshop located in Doncaster, England.

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Douro

The Douro (Duero; Mirandese: Douro ˈdowɾʊ; Durius) is the largest river of the Iberian Peninsula by discharge.

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East Lancashire Railway

The East Lancashire Railway is a heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in Lancashire.

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Eastern Region of British Railways

The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings.

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Eastleigh Works

Eastleigh Works is a locomotive, carriage and wagon building and repair facility in the town of Eastleigh, in the county of Hampshire in England.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Electric locomotive

An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.

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English Electric

The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice ending the fighting of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during the war, made munitions, armaments and aeroplanes.

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English Electric diesel engines

English Electric's K, RK and V type diesel engines were manufactured by the English Electric company of the United Kingdom for stationary, rail transport and maritime use between 1934 and 1976. British Rail Class 50 and English Electric diesel engines are English Electric locomotives.

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Entroncamento

Entroncamento is a Portuguese municipality in district of Santarém in the Médio Tejo Subregion (Middle Tagus) of the Centro Region.

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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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Fishguard

Fishguard (Abergwaun, meaning "Mouth of the River Gwaun") is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with a population of 3,400 (rounded to the nearest 100) as of the 2021 census.

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GB Railfreight

GB Railfreight (GBRf) is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Graham Farish

Graham Farish is a Chinese-owned brand of N gauge British railway models.

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Great Central Railway

The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension.

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Great Central Railway (heritage railway)

The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway.

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Great Western Main Line

The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Halesowen

Halesowen is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the county of West Midlands, England.

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Head-end power

In rail transport, head-end power (HEP), also known as electric train supply (ETS), is the electrical power distribution system on a passenger train.

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Heljan

Heljan A/S is a Danish model railway company based in Søndersø.

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Hereford railway station

Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England.

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HMNZS Achilles

HMNZS Achilles was a light cruiser, the second of five in the class.

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HMS Agincourt

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Agincourt, named after the Battle of Agincourt of 1415, and construction of another was started but not completed.

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HMS Ajax

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax.

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HMS Anson (79)

HMS Anson was a battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral George Anson.

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HMS Ark Royal (91)

HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War.

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HMS Ark Royal (R09)

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier.

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HMS Barham (04)

HMS Barham was one of five s built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s.

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HMS Benbow (1913)

HMS Benbow was the third of four s of the Royal Navy, the third ship to be named in honour of Admiral John Benbow.

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HMS Bulwark (R08)

The sixth HMS Bulwark of the Royal Navy was a 22,000 ton light fleet aircraft carrier.

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HMS Centurion (1892)

HMS Centurion was the lead ship of her class of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

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HMS Collingwood (1908)

HMS Collingwood was a dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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HMS Conqueror (S48)

HMS Conqueror was a British nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990.

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HMS Courageous (S50)

HMS Courageous (S50) is a decommissioned nuclear fleet submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1971.

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HMS Dauntless (D45)

HMS Dauntless was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Defiance

Twelve ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Defiance.

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HMS Dreadnought

Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would "dread nought", i.e. "fear nothing".

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HMS Eagle (R05)

HMS Eagle was an of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972.

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HMS Exeter (68)

HMS Exeter was the second and last heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s.

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HMS Fearless (L10)

HMS Fearless (L10) was a Royal Navy amphibious assault ship that served from 1965 until 2002.

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HMS Formidable (67)

HMS Formidable was an ordered for the Royal Navy before the Second World War.

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HMS Furious (47)

HMS Furious was a modified built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War.

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HMS Glorious

HMS Glorious was the second of the three s built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.

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HMS Hercules (1910)

HMS Hercules was the second and last of the two dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy at the end of the first decade of the 20th century.

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HMS Hood

HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN).

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HMS Howe (32)

HMS Howe (pennant number 32) was the last of the five British ''King George V''-class battleships of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Illustrious (87)

HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II.

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HMS Implacable (R86)

HMS Implacable was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy during World War II.

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HMS Indomitable (92)

HMS Indomitable was a modified built for the Royal Navy during World War II.

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HMS Invincible (1907)

HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country in the world.

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HMS Leviathan (1901)

HMS Leviathan was one of four armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900.

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HMS Lion (C34)

HMS Lion was a light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, originally ordered in 1942 as one of the and laid down that same year as Defence by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock in Scotland on 6 June 1942.

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HMS Monarch (1911)

HMS Monarch was the second of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s.

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HMS Neptune (1909)

HMS Neptune was a dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century, the sole ship of her class.

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HMS Ramillies (07)

HMS Ramillies (pennant number: 07) was one of five super-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.

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HMS Renown (S26)

HMS Renown (S26) was the third of the Royal Navy's ballistic missile submarines.

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HMS Repulse (S23)

HMS Repulse (S23) was a ballistic missile submarine of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Resolution (S22)

HMS Resolution (S22) was the first of the Royal Navy's ballistic missile submarines.

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HMS Revenge (S27)

HMS Revenge (S27) was the fourth of the Royal Navy's ballistic missile submarines.

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HMS Rodney (29)

HMS Rodney was one of two s built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s.

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HMS Royal Oak (08)

HMS Royal Oak was one of five s built for the Royal Navy during the First World War.

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HMS St Vincent (1908)

HMS St Vincent was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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HMS Superb

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Superb, or HMS Superbe.

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HMS Superb (S109)

HMS Superb was a nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the serving in the Royal Navy.

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HMS Swiftsure (S126)

HMS Swiftsure was the lead ship of her class of nuclear fleet submarines built for the Royal Navy.

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HMS Temeraire (1907)

HMS Temeraire was one of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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HMS Thunderer (1911)

HMS Thunderer was the fourth and last dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s.

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HMS Tiger (C20)

HMS Tiger was a conventional cruiser of the British Royal Navy, one of a three-ship class known as the.

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HMS Triumph (R16)

HMS Triumph was a Royal Navy light fleet aircraft carrier.

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HMS Valiant (S102)

The sixth and most recent HMS Valiant was the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the first of the two-unit.

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HMS Vanguard (23)

HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended.

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HMS Victorious (R38)

HMS Victorious was the third ''Illustrious''-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable.

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HMS Warspite (S103)

The latest HMS Warspite was the third of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the second (and final) of the.

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Hornby Railways

Hornby Hobbies Limited is a British-owned scale model manufacturing company which has been focused on model railways.

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Ian Allan Publishing

Ian Allan Publishing was an English publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.

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Iberian-gauge railways

Iberian gauge (ancho ibérico, trocha ibérica, bitola ibérica) is a track gauge of, most extensively used by the railways of Spain and Portugal.

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InterCity (British Rail)

InterCity (or, in the earliest days, the hyphenated Inter-City) was a brand name introduced by British Rail in 1966 for its long-haul express passenger services (see British Rail brand names for a full history).

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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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Kaolinite

Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

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Kings Norton

Kings Norton, alternatively King's Norton, is an area of Birmingham, England.

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Laira

Laira – previously recorded as Lare (1591), Lary poynte (1638), the Leerie (1643), and the Lairy (1802) – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the River Plym from the Cattewater up to Marsh Mills in Plymouth, Devon, England.

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Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Plymouth, Devon, 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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Lima

Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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List of British Rail power classifications

The British Transport Commission, later British Railways, used engine power output to categorise its requirements for the new main line diesel locomotive fleet following the 1955 modernisation plan. British Rail Class 50 and List of British Rail power classifications are British Rail diesel locomotives.

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Locomotive wheelslip

Locomotive wheelslip is an event that affects railway motive power usually when starting from stationary, but can also affect an engine in motion.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Paddington station

Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.

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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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London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally used in historical circles. The LMS occasionally also used the initials LM&SR.

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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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Manchester Victoria station

Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England, is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop.

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MC Metals was a metal recycling company based in the Springburn area of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Mid-Hants Railway

The Mid-Hants Railway (MHR) originated when local people promoted a railway line between Alton and a junction near Winchester, connected to the larger London and South Western Railway at each end.

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Mid-Norfolk Railway

The Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain.

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Multiple working

On the UK rail network, multiple working is where two or more traction units (locomotives, diesel multiple units or electric multiple units) are coupled together in such a way that they are all under the control of one driver (multiple-unit train control).

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Museum of the Great Western Railway

STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York, England, forming part of the Science Museum Group.

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National Railway Museum (Portugal)

The National Railway Museum of Portugal (Museu Nacional Ferroviário) has its headquarters and main base in the town of Entroncamento, which is also a major hub of the Portuguese rail network and the location of railway workshops.

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Network Rail

Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

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Network SouthEast

Network SouthEast (NSE) was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in 1982.

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Newton-le-Willows

Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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North Woolwich

North Woolwich is an area in the London Borough of Newham in East London, England, on the northern bank of the River Thames, across the river from Woolwich.

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North Yorkshire Moors Railway

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, that runs through the North York Moors National Park.

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O scale

O scale (or O gauge) is a scale commonly used for toy trains and rail transport modelling.

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Old Oak Common TMD

Old Oak Common TMD was a traction maintenance depot located west of London Paddington, in Old Oak Common.

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OO gauge

OO gauge or OO scale (also, 00 gauge and 00 scale) is the most popular standard gauge model railway standard in the United Kingdom, outside of which it is virtually unknown.

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Oxford railway station

Oxford railway station is a mainline railway station, one of two serving the city of Oxford, England.

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Peak Rail

Peak Rail is a preserved railway in Derbyshire, England, which operates a steam and heritage diesel service for tourists and visitors to both the Peak District and the Derbyshire Dales.

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Perth railway station (Scotland)

Perth railway station is a railway station located in the city of Perth, Scotland, on both the Glasgow to Dundee line and the Highland Main Line.

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Plym Valley Railway

The Plym Valley Railway is a heritage railway based on part of the now-closed South Devon and Tavistock Railway, a branch line of the Great Western Railway in Devon, England.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Porto

Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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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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Railfan

A railfan, train fan, rail buff or train buff (American English), railway enthusiast, railway buff, trainspotter (Australian/British English) or ferroequinologist is a person who is recreationally interested in trains and rail transport systems.

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Railtrack

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from 1994 until 2002.

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Railway air brake

A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium.

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Railway World

Railway World was an English-based monthly magazine covering rail transport in Great Britain.

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Rotherham

Rotherham is a Minster town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Route availability

Route Availability (RA) is the system by which the permanent way and supporting works (bridges, embankments, etc.) of the railway network of Great Britain are graded.

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Royal Docks Heritage Railway

The Royal Docks Heritage Railway, endorsed in 2006 by Newham London Borough Council, was proposed to open during 2007, taking over the North Woolwich Old Station Museum and the closed section of the North London Line between and railway stations.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.

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Severn Valley Railway

The Severn Valley Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England, named after the company that originally built the railway over which it now operates.

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Sims Limited (formerly Sims Metal Management Limited) is a global environmental services conglomerate, operating through a number of divisions, with a focus on: (a) Ferrous and Non-ferrous metal recycling, (b) enterprise data destruction and cloud asset management (c) post-consumer electronic goods recycling and reuse, (d) municipal waste recycling, (e) gas to energy, and (f) waste to energy.

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South Devon Railway (heritage railway)

The South Devon Railway (SDR) is a heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon.

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Spring green

Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.

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Sulzer (manufacturer)

Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm, founded by Salomon Sulzer-Bernet in 1775 and established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. (Gebrüder Sulzer) in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

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TOPS

Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) is a computer system for managing railway locomotives and rolling stock, known for many years of use in the United Kingdom.

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Train event recorder

A train event recorder – also called On-Train Monitoring Recorder (OTMR), On-Train Data Recorder (OTDR), Event Recorder System (ERS), Event Recorder Unit (ERU), or Juridical Recording Unit (JRU) – is a device that records data about the operation of train controls, the performance of the train in response to those controls, and the operation of associated control systems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_50

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