Title: British Rail Class 20 - Wikipedia
Headings: British Rail Class 20
British Rail Class 20
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Contents
Overview
Operation
British Rail
After privatisation
Sub-classes
Liveries
British Rail
Privatisation
Accidents and incidents
In popular culture
Preservation
Model railways
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
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Content: Most have now been withdrawn but a few remain with GBRf and other minor and industrial operators. Several that are usually operated singly have been fitted with nose-mounted video cameras as a way of solving the visibility problems. The Série 1400 locomotives of Portuguese Railways (CP) are based on the BR Class 20s. Operation
British Rail
Distribution of locomotives,
March 1974
ED
HA
IM
TI
TO
Code
Name
Quantity
ED
Eastfield
49
HA
Haymarket
19
IM
Immingham
7
TI
Tinsley
44
TO
Toton
109
Total: 228
The first batch of Class 20s were allocated to Devons Road depot in Bow, London to work cross-London transfer freights, with the following eight locos allocated to Hornsey depot. After a trial with D8006, D8028–D8034 were allocated for work in highland Scotland, and had tablet catcher recesses built into the cabsides. D8035–D8044 were originally to be allocated to Norwich, but were actually used for empty coaching stock (ECS) workings in and out of London Euston. D8050–D8069 were allocated to the new Tinsley TMD in South Yorkshire, from where they regularly worked into Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire. D8070–D8127 were sent to operate in the Scottish lowlands, particularly in the Forth - Clyde area, and the Fife coalfield. This completed the original orders for 128 locos, the last being delivered in August 1962.