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    Norfolk loco-hauled finale

    Nov 19, 2019 3 minutes
    Words and pictures by Brian Sharpe

    A POPULAR class of diesel locomotive first introduced in 1960 has finally ceased regular timetabled passenger services on Norfolk’s Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft branches.

    East Anglia was one of the first areas of BR to be completely dieselised. The first 10 of the English Electric Type 4 1 Co-Co1s (later Class 40) and the first batch of the Brush Type 2 A1A-A1As (Class 31), together with substantial numbers of DMUs, started the modernisation process of East

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