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Sep 24, 2019
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Heritage Diesel and Electric Locomotives
by Andy Coward (softback, Mortons, classicmagazines.co.uk/ product/5573/bookazine-heritagediesel-and-electric-locomotives 132pp , £7.99 post free, ISBN 9781911639046).
IT IS now more than 40 years since the first British Rail main line diesel locomotive, D821 Greyhound (as pictured in News, pages 16/17), was bought for preservation.
Since then, hundreds of diesel and electric locomotives have had their long-term survival ensured – the most recent being the first production High Speed Train Class 43 locomotive No. 43002 , which has been preserved
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