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Let's rivet count the Great British Locomotive Collection issues 1 to 10. This OO gauge authentic looking steam and diesel trains explores the most amazing locomotives used in Britain. Examine the amazing pioneers of the early 19th Century machine age and the development of the steam locomotive, through to the present day diesel and electric machines that replaced them. The Great British Locomotives magazine brings an exciting series of collectable highly detailed models. Each 4mm scale 'OO' model comes with its own dedicated magazine, packed with history and facts about the most amazing locomotives ever built. Collect them all to build a superb encyclopaedia examining the history of the evolution of Britain's railway locomotives. Impress your mother, impress your girlfriend but most importantly impress yourself. Just be very careful if you can afford such an extensive collection of beautiful model trains. Finding out all the facts to how many is in this collection and total cost of collecting is not that easy to find. I wonder why?
To get an insight into how the transition to Diesel and Electric trains halted the steam era keep reading on. 1968 was a decisive year of change for British Railways.
The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948-1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the "Big Four".
In addition, BR built 2537 steam locomotives in the period 1948-1960, 1538 to pre-nationalisation designs and 999 to its own standard designs. These locomotives had short working lives, some as little as five years, because of the decision to end the use of steam traction by 1968, against a design life of over 30 years and a theoretical final withdrawal date of between 1990 and 2000.
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