Motor Rail information

Motor Rail was a British locomotive-building company, originally based in Lewes, Sussex, they moved in 1916 to Bedford. Loco manufacture ceased in 1987...

The Rail Motor Society, based at Paterson, New South Wales, is a community owned collection of preserved self-propelled railway vehicles and equipment...

(or "rail motors"). Self-propelled passenger vehicles also capable of hauling a train are, in technical rail usage, more usually called "rail motor coaches"...

the 1984, Air-Rail Link shuttle, between Birmingham's airport and an adjacent train station. Because of these properties, linear motors are often used...

The steam rail motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935. They incorporated...

Class Y11 was a class of three petrol powered 0-4-0 locomotives built by Motor Rail & Tram Car Company Limited under their Simplex brand and introduced in...

restored at the Rail Workshops Museum, currently on display at the Rail Workshops Museum, North Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Surplus Motor Rail internal combustion...

run using internal combustion, almost exclusively the products of the Motor Rail company. It was one of the first railways in Britain entirely operated...

opened on 27 August 1960 using a Motor Rail "Simplex" locomotive and a single open bogie carriage. In 1961, a second Motor Rail locomotive was added, and the...

List of British Rail electric multiple unit classes British Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification British Rail coach type codes...

pickup shoes for third rail systems and pantographs for overhead systems, and transformers. Motor cars carry the traction motors to move the train, and...

locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives...

and Hornsby of Lincoln and three were made by Motor Rail of Bedford. The frames of a fourth Motor Rail locomotive were used to form the chassis of a brakevan...

traction motors fitted to the two central motor cars giving a total output of 8,000 hp (6,000 kW). This enabled the train to set the UK rail speed record...

fourth rail which each provide 750 V DC, so at least electrically it is a four-rail system. Each wheel set of a powered bogie carries one traction motor. A...

The British Rail Class 142 Pacer are diesel multiple-unit passenger trains built for British Rail (BR) from 1985 to 1987. They were built with a high...

An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction...

Simplex 40S diesel locomotive built by British locomotive-building company Motor Rail in the mid 1960s. The two thousand pound locomotive was purchased from...

Stuart 'Brazil' class (steam) (1178/1911) No.8 "Bessie", an 'armoured' Motor Rail Simplex (petrol) (466/1917) No.13, an American built Plymouth BL1 Type...

rail or overhead wire. As the vehicle moves, the contact shoe slides along the wire or rail to draw the electricity needed to run the vehicle's motor...

Motor coach can refer to Motor bus, under the Canadian English usage of the term "coach" Motorcoach, a long-distance bus, in British English Motor coach...

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel...

Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was an English vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company...

A DC motor is an electrical motor that uses direct current (DC) to produce mechanical force. The most common types rely on magnetic forces produced by...

4 hp) Ernest E. Baguley tractors, 580 15 kW (20 hp) Motor Rail tractors and 220 30 kW (40 hp) Motor Rail tractors. An additional two hundred 30 kW (40 hp)...