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    TIME TRAVELLER

    Sep 17, 2019 3 minutes

    50 YEARS AGO... OCTOBER 1969

    KESTREL TAKES FLIGHT

    Hawker Siddeley 4000hp prototype Co-Co No. HS4000 began passenger trials on the Eastern Region on October 20, with the 16.20 King’s Cross to York. The loco was claimed to be the world’s most powerful single-engine diesel-electric locomotive at the time, being designed and built by Brush Electrical Engineering in 1967/8. After initial trials on passenger and freight duties, it was given BR Type 4 bogies early in 1969 to reduce the axle-loadings to less than

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