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Railway Support Services has imported a Canadian-built diesel locomotive to demonstrate its plans to produce a replacement for the venerable Class 08 design for main line and industrial shunting and short-distance freight operations.
(Permalink) Class 08 Railway Support Services Shunter |
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Work to convert a Class 08 shunter from diesel to hydrogen power has passed a significant milestone.
(Permalink) Class 08 Green Hydrogen Power Severn Valley Railway |
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A Class 08 diesel-electric shunting locomotive is being converted to fuel cell power by the Severn Valley Railway heritage line, the University of Birmingham and hydrogen technology specialist Vanguard Sustainable Transport Solutions.
(Permalink) Class 08 Fuel Cell Severn Valley Railway University of Birmingham Vanguard Sustainable Transport Solutions |
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A 60 year old diesel shunting locomotive has been re-engineered with a low-emission hybrid traction package using automotive technology, as part of a research programme backed by the UKs Department for Transport.
Meteor Power Ltd put forward the proposal to convert an ex-British Rail Class 08 shunter with hybrid powertrain under DfTs 2019 First of a Kind funding competition to investigate the feasibility of re-engineering older locomotives. (Permalink) Class 08  Derby: Preserved class 08 no 08631 (formerly D3798) photographed at Derby in August 2002.  Balornock Shed: BR 0-6-0 diesel shunter 13280 (later class 08 08210), built at Derby in 1956 and seen here in the early 1960s standing alongside the fuelling point at Balornock Shed.  St Margarets Shed: One of a batch of 6 class 08 diesel shunters to arrive at St Margarets in the spring of 1959, this one numbered D3733. The locomotive is standing on the north side of the depot on 2 May, looking as th ... |
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Groundwork to sink foundations for a modern two-road steel-clad building, which will be fully equipped with lifting jacks and inspection pits, is expected to get under way by early autumn.
Diesel locomotive owners at the 16-mile Kidderminster to Bridgnorth line have been trying for more than 20 years to get the work started, which will take place at Kidderminster station following approval by Wyre Forest District Council. The cost of the new depot is being shouldered chiefly by seven diesel groups - the Diesel Traction Group, The Fifty Fund, The Western Locomotive Association, The Class 08 Society, the Ruston 906 Group, The Class 11 Group, and Somerset Traction Ltd - and also the railway's members organisation, the Severn Valley Railway Association, whose locomotives are residents at the SVR. (Permalink) Class 08 Class 11 Severn Valley Railway  Bridgnorth: 46443 with a train at Bridgnorth in the 1960s  Bridgnorth: D1013 Western Ranger viewed from the station carpark at Bridgnorth in July 2006.  Bridgnorth: 7812 running round at Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway in September 2008. |
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