Monday, October 26, 2020

BR Standard Class 5.



                              The British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 was one of the 12 standard classes                                of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s. It was essentially a                                        development of the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0. A total of 172 were built between                                    1951 and 1957.

        

Maastrict signal box, Holland. 1953.


 

China Railways.


 

The Class 170 Turbostar is a British diesel multiple-unit (DMU) passenger train built by Bombardier Transportation (and previously ADtranz) at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works.


 

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Spain's quickest train is the Velaro E by Siemens,


 

E5 Series.


 

E5 Series Shinkansen Hayabusa trains, which entered administration in March 2011, with an underlying greatest speed of 300km presently run on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line with a most extreme working pace of 320kmph. At present the quickest in Japan, the train accomplished a speed of about 400kmph during preliminaries. The train was fabricated by Kawasaki Heavy Industry (KHI) and Hitachi, while East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is the administrator. 

LNER Hitachi IEP Azuma 800110 on King's Cross to Edinburgh.