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The Diesel Traction Group (DTG) is the Christchurch-based operator of a fleet of ex-New Zealand Railways Department diesel-electric locomotives. The fleet represents a full collection of New Zealand locomotive classes built by the English Electric Company and is a historically significant collection of early New Zealand diesel traction. All of the DTG's locomotives are owned by individual members through the sale of shareholdings.

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Diesel Traction Group

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The Diesel Traction Group (DTG) is the Christchurch-based operator of a fleet of ex-New Zealand Railways Department diesel-electric locomotives. The fleet...

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British Rail Class 52

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Whilst almost all other diesel locomotives were diesel-electric, the Western Region employed a policy of using diesel-hydraulic traction, originally commissioning...

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List of rolling stock preserved on the Severn Valley Railway

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"D7029 News and Information". Diesel Traction Group. Retrieved 10 January 2023. Dunster, Jonathan (Winter 2022). "Diesel Traction Notes". Severn Valley Railway...

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Brush Traction

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52°46′55″N 1°11′50″W / 52.78194°N 1.19722°W / 52.78194; -1.19722 Brush Traction was a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives in Loughborough...

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List of preserved British Rail Class 47 locomotives

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Stratford 47 Group Homepage Bodmin Diesels website Archived 30 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine 47771 page[permanent dead link] Preserved Diesels website...

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Irish Traction Group

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The Irish Traction Group is a railway preservation society dedicated to preserving diesel locomotives from Irish railways. It was founded on 4 June 1989...

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1954 in rail transport

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California: Trans-Anglo Books. p. 64. ISBN 0-87046-026-9. "DF 1501". Diesel Traction Group Inc. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved January...

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British Rail Class 35

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Lancashire Railway : Diesel Group - Home of D7076 Diesel & Electric Preservation Group - owners of D7017 & D7018 Diesel Traction Group - owners of D7029...

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New Zealand DI class locomotive

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components in May 1991 by the Diesel Traction Group for spares for 1820. DI1820 was purchased by the Diesel Traction Group in 1989, and transferred to their...

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Ferrymead Railway

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the withdrawal of the DG class diesel-electric locomotives by NZR in 1983, a separate society, the Diesel Traction Group, was formed to preserve one of...

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DTG

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that in 1979 merged with Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co. Diesel Traction Group, a railway preservation group in New Zealand Differential thermogravimetry, a differential...

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List of British Rail modern traction locomotive classes

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every locomotive allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the mainline network...

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List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines

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Preservation Society (McLeans Island Steamscene) Christchurch Tramway Ltd Diesel Traction Group Heritage Tramways Trust Midland Rail Heritage Trust Midland Railway...

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English Electric

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industrial electric motors and transformers, locomotives and traction equipment, diesel motors and steam turbines. Its activities were later expanded...

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Crewe Diesel TMD

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Crewe Diesel Depot is a former diesel-electric locomotive traction maintenance depot, formerly Crewe Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot or Crewe Diesel TMD...

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British Rail Class 42

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locomotive was scrapped. Around 1971, an approach was made by the Diesel Traction Group seeking to purchase Class 22 D6319. A price was agreed, but before...

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West Coast Railways

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and the Settle & Carlisle line. The tour was diesel-hauled from York to Hellifield where steam traction took over the train and travelled along the Settle...

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British Rail HS4000

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Kestrel was a prototype high-powered mainline diesel locomotive that was built in 1967 by Brush Traction, Loughborough, as a technology demonstrator for...

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British Rail Class 53

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Rail Main-Line Diesels. Shepperton: Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7110-0617-1. "Falcon's final flight". Traction. No. 105. Warners Group Publications. July...

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Internal combustion locomotive

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arrangement, the diesel engine drives either an electrical DC generator (generally, less than 3,000 horsepower (2,200 kW) net for traction), or an electrical...

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British Rail Class 17

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ISSN 1479-2230. Carr, Richard (13 August 2010). "ZH Traction Applications". Paxman and Diesel Rail Traction. Paxman History Pages. Archived from the original...

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British Rail Class 769

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Porterbrook and train manufacturer Brush Traction. The conversion principally involves the addition of a pair of MAN diesel engines (one under each driving trailer...

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Ferrymead Heritage Park

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(operators of the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge Ferrymead Railway) Diesel Traction Group Inc. Ferrymead Aeronautical Society Inc. Ferrymead Post and Telegraph...

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New Zealand DE class locomotive

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surviving Royal Train DE. DE 511/DE1412 was sold in 1988 to the Diesel Traction Group. After being restored as DE 511, it traveled with DG 772 to Springfield...

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GE Evolution Series

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DC traction), sometimes called the SD23T4, is a modernized locomotive using EMD's SD40-2 platform and the Wabtec Inline 6-cylinder Tier 4 diesel engine...

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Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

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Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Plymouth, Devon, England. The depot is operated...

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Railway preservation in New Zealand

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first-generation diesel locomotives, the Diesel Traction Group was founded in Christchurch in 1983 with an aim to preserve these locomotives. By 1990 this group had...

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Misha Black

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Official Handbook. Capital Transport. p. 66. D1015 is owned by the Diesel Traction Group Rayner, Geoff (2015). Jacqueline Groag Textile & Pattern Design:...

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