British Rail Class 47 Diesel action at the July 2025 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Diesel Gala! Follow Schony747 Youtube & DVD for more rail. | Schony747 Youtube & DVD | Facebook

176K views · 3K reactions | Semaphore Saturday! Here is British Rail 47 Class 47077 North Star navigating the numerous semaphore signals on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. May 2024. | Schony747 Youtube & DVD | Facebook

🚂 British Rail Class 58 – The Modular Workhorse of the 1980s 🚂 The Class 58 might not have had the glamour of a Deltic or the fame of a Class 37, but it earned its place in British railway history through sheer reliability and innovation. Introduced in the early 1980s, these powerful locomotives were designed with a modular, easy-to-maintain structure — a first for BR at the time. From heavy coal trains rumbling through the Midlands to freight duties across the network, the Class 58 proved its

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1.1K views · 30 reactions | Here is some classic British Rail action as Class 47 Diesel 47105 departs Toddington Station at the GWSR 2025 diesel gala. Filmed August 2025. | Schony747 Youtube & DVD | Facebook

The sound of a class 47 locomotive, with it’s Sulzer 12LDA28-C engine. Sulzer developed a series of rail traction engines in the 1930s and 1940s which were used extensively in diesel locomotives in the UK, Europe and South America. A small number were used in locomotives in Africa and Australia. The Sulzer LDA (prefixed by the number of cylinders, and with a suffix related to the cylinder bore) engine was widely used by British Rail and Romanian Railways. Many were built under licence by Vickers

🚆 The Mighty Class 47 – Britain’s Workhorse of the Rails 🚆 Few locomotives have defined an era quite like the British Rail Class 47. Built between 1962 and 1968 by Brush Traction and BR Crewe Works, these powerful Type 4 diesels became the backbone of British Rail. With over 500 built, they could be seen hauling everything from prestigious express passenger services to heavy freight across the entire network. Known for their distinctive Sulzer engines and versatility, the Class 47s carried alm