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Oct 2002. This locomotive deserves a place in the national railway museum in York. It is a very rare view of M1 class No.560. This loco is in the running shed at Demateragoda, just north of Colombo. Built by Brush bagnal as the company was then called, in Loughborogh England. This loco was part of the order for 24 locomotives which were constructed between 1952-1955. These 1000 hp, A1A-A1A locos were powered by a Mirrlees V12 , turbo charged engine and used four Brush traction motors and had a weight of 87 tons. These were true pioneer locomotives considering that at the time of construction the only other diesel-electric loco's inregular service in britain were LMS 1000 & 1001. This design was futher developed and emerged for British Railways the well known class 31. | Sri Lanka | (472) |
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Oct 2002. One of the very modern M9 class loco's 872 is detached at Galle upon arrival from Colombo. the train reverses here and was worked by a M7 loco through to Matara | Sri Lanka | (388) |
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Oct 2002. Class M8, No. 842 arriving into Colombo fort station from the south. | Sri Lanka | (333) |
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Oct 2002 .This shot was taken from the entrance gate to my hotel, 'Villa ocean view', get a good room and have a similar view direct from your balcony !!!. This is M6 class 788 piloting W1 class hydraulic loco. on a south bound express. | Sri Lanka | (312) |
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22/10/2003. A rare picture of the skelital remains of crash victim 17506 on the Braganza ghat. During my visit the following year in 2004 the loco had been removed. | INDIAN RAILWAY COLLECTION. | (271) |
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