Title: British Rail Class 20 - Wikipedia
Headings: British Rail Class 20
British Rail Class 20
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Overview
Operation
British Rail
After privatisation
Sub-classes
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British Rail
Privatisation
Accidents and incidents
In popular culture
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Model railways
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Content: Otherwise their use was limited to summer relief services, particularly to Skegness often under the adopted title of The Jolly Fisherman starting from various places including Burton-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, Derby and Leicester. Also occasionally other holiday resorts on the east coast of England, occasional duties as a pilot, and short distance diversions of electric-hauled trains over non-electrified lines. The shift of light mixed freight to the road network left British Rail with an oversupply of small locomotives. The Class 20s, however, could work in multiple and so handle heavier traffic. Most spent the majority of their working lives coupled nose to nose in pairs to provide a more useful 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) unit and to solve the visibility problems. Most have now been withdrawn but a few remain with GBRf and other minor and industrial operators.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.