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The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives - From Design to Destruction (Hardcover)
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The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives - From Design to Destruction (Hardcover)
Series: Locomotive Portfolio Diesel and Electric
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This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers
diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known
collectively as the Co-Bo's due to their unusual wheel arrangement.
Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for use
on the London Midland Region of British Railways. The fleet was
fraught with difficulties from the start, most notably due to
problems with their Crossley engines, this necessitating the need
for extensive rehabilitation work during the early-1960s. Matters
barely improved and the option to completely re-engine the
locomotives with English Electric units was debated at length, but
a downturn in traffic levels ultimately resulted in their demise by
the end of 1968 prior to any further major rebuilding work being
carried out. Significant quantities of new archive and personal
sighting information, supported by over 180 photographs and
diagrams, have been brought together to allow dramatic new insights
into this enigmatic class of locomotives, including the whole
debate surrounding potential re-engining, their works histories,
the extended periods in storage, together with in-depth reviews of
the various detail differences and liveries.
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