Diesels at the Great Central Railway

I do not despise the diesels, indeed my time at sea

was principally spent on motor ships with very big 

diesel engines.

Every big railway should have a class 37

Class 45 Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry.

The Class 44's received the 12LDA28 set at 2,300hp, the addition of intercooling brought the rating upto 2,500hp for the Class 45's built from 1960 - 1963. The view below is of one of the 'B' variants awaiting installation into a Class 45 during the late 1970's. Sulzer obtained even more out of this design by increasing the rpm to 800 and reinforcing/strengthening certain components to allow 2,750hp to be delivered.

Variously named over the years but generally called

class 25. Sometimes Class2 Sulzers

Built at Darlington works in 1963

Always a class 08 around

Class 20 were the workhorses of early diesel 

freight