4D-003-019 Class 52 Western Crusader BR Green Small Yellow Panels D1004 Diesel Locomotive Water System forming endless different track layouts

forming endless different track layouts

including two of the ­ five built by Drummond

They were built by British Rail Engineering Limited's York carriage works for use on north-south cross-London services

When and who invented it

the official first curvimeter patent belongs to the English engineer Edward Russell Morris who in 1873 registered “a novel device for measuring distances”

4D-003-019 Class 52 Western Crusader BR Green Small Yellow Panels D1004 Diesel Locomotive Water System forming endless different track layoutsThe Class 52 diesel hydraulic locomotive was introduced by BR Western Region in 1962 to provide improved top end freight and passenger service unobtainable from the lesser powered Hymeks and Warships. At this time the required power output was not achievable by a single power unit and the Westerns were fitted with two Maybach engines coupled with a Voith 3 speed hydraulic transmission. This had the added advantage that the locomotive could run, if