London Underground diesel locomotives
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london-underground-diesel-locomotives-169-490155
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London Underground diesel locomotives
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Diesel locomotives have seen limited use on the London Underground, largely because exhaust gases cannot be discharged when the vehicles are working in tunnels. A prototype diesel engine numbered DEL120 was built in 1939 from two 1915 stock motor cars, which was expected to be part of a batch of ten, but experience with battery locomotives showed that these were a better alternative. Three 0-6-0 diesels (DL81-DL83) were obtained in 1971, to replace the last steam engines, but were too short to o
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2004-12-27T03:26:58Z
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2024-08-31T19:16:44Z
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