Two-Stroke Diesel Engines: Napier Deltic, British Rail Class 55, Ton Class Minesweeper, Fairbanks-Morse, Roots Type Supercharger

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Napier Deltic, British Rail Class 55, Ton class minesweeper, Fairbanks-Morse, Roots type supercharger, Dark class fast patrol boat, British Rail Class 23, Opposed-piston engine, Commer TS3, Tjeld class patrol boat, Junkers Jumo 205, British Railways DP1, EMD 645, Detroit Diesel 110, Hunt class mine countermeasures vessel, EMD 710, EMD 567, Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C, Detroit Diesel Series 71, Junkers Jumo 204, Two-stroke diesel engine, Deltic 9000 Fund, Brons, Detroit Diesel Series 149, Napier Culverin, Detroit Diesel Series 92, Junkers Jumo 223, Exhaust pulse pressure charging, MAN B&W K108ME-C, Detroit Diesel Series 51. Excerpt: The British Rail Class 55 is a class of diesel locomotive built in 1961 and 1962 by English Electric. They were designed for the high-speed express passenger services on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh. They gained the name Deltic from the prototype locomotive, DP1 Deltic, which in turn was named for its Napier Deltic power units. Twenty-two locomotives were built: they dominated express passenger services on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) particularly London - Leeds and London - Edinburgh services until 1978 when InterCity 125 'High Speed Trains' were introduced. 1978-81 saw them gradually relegated to semi-fast or newspaper-parcel-sleeper services along the ECML (destinations including Cleethorpes, Harrogate, Hull, Scarborough and Aberdeen) plus occasional forays 'offline' - York - Liverpool Lime Street semi-fast and Edinburgh - Carlisle via Newcastle stoppers. Withdrawal came at the end of 1981. Six locomotives were preserved and are still running today. A sectioned Napier Deltic engine at the National Railway MuseumFollowing trials with the prototype DP1 Deltic locomotive, an order was placed with English Electric for a production fleet of 22 units (r...