Title: British Rail Class 33 - Wikipedia
Headings: British Rail Class 33
British Rail Class 33
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Contents
Background
Design
Electric Train Heating (ETH)
New-build locomotives
Class 33/0 – standard locomotives
Class 33/2 – narrow-bodied locomotives
Early years
Push-pull operations
Conversions – Class 33/1 – push-pull fitted locomotives
Tramway safety
Accidents and incidents
83301
Preservation
Model railways
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

Content: In the winter, their expected use was to be for freight. Thus, they became the most powerful BR Bo-Bo diesel locomotive. The perennially unreliable steam heating boiler could also be avoided. A total of 98 were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) and they were known as "Cromptons" after the Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment installed in them. Like their lower-powered BRCW sisters, the Class 26 and Class 27 locomotives, their bodywork and cab ends were of all steel construction. They were very similar in appearance to class 26 locos, but carried Southern Region two-digit headcode blinds between the cab windows. The original (1957) number sequence was D6500–D6597. Contents
1 Background
2 Design
2.1 Electric Train Heating (ETH)
3 New-build locomotives
3.1 Class 33/0 – standard locomotives
3.2 Class 33/2 – narrow-bodied locomotives
4 Early years
5 Push-pull operations
5.1 Conversions – Class 33/1 – push-pull fitted locomotives
5.2 Tramway safety
6 Accidents and incidents
7 83301
8 Preservation
9 Model railways
10 Notes
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
Background
The locomotives were initially needed, unusually, because of an electrification scheme. The 'Kent Coast scheme' was one of five major electrification schemes put forward by the 1955 Modernisation Plan. Under Stage 1 of the scheme, the majority of railway lines east of a line drawn between Reading and Portsmouth would be electrified.