Class 56 - Brush Type 5 - Co-Co

• Built 1976-84 by Electroputere at Craiova, Romania (as sub Contractors for Brush) or BREL at Doncaster or Crewe Works.
• Ruston Paxman 16RK3CT Engine of 2460 kW (3250 hp) at 900 rpm.
• Brush BA1101A Main Alternator.
• Brush TM73-62 Traction Motors.
• Maximum Tractive Effort of 275 kN (61800 lbf), Continuous Tractive Effort of 240 kN (53950 lbf) at 16.8 mph.
• Power at Rail of 1790 kW (2640 hp).
• Brake Force 60 t, Train Brakes air.
• Length over buffers of 19.36 m, Wheel Diameter of 1143 mm.
• Weight 125 t, Route Availability (RA) Index 7.
• Design Speed and Maximum Speed of 80 mph.
• Multiple Working through the Red Diamond Coupling Code.
• All built with Slow Speed Control for use with Merry Go Round (MGR) Coal traffic.

Class members 56003 to 56135.

Class 56 Photographs.

56004 stands at Toton TMD on the 13th June 1993.	56008 and 56012 at Toton on the 13th June 1993. 56012 is in front.
56008 stands between some wagons and 40212 at the Leicester Depot Open day on the 6th September 1992. Behind the Class 40 is Deltic 55015.	56011 and 37686 at Toton on the 13th June 1993.
Transrail liveried 56018 hauls another 56 and a freight train through Bescot Stadium station in Birmingham. Bescot is the site of a large railway yard and depot that is visible from the M6 motorway. A class 150 in Centro PTE livery also leaves the station in this shot. This loco is now in the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway Company livery (maroon with large EW&S or EWS lettering).	Coal 56029 sits at Toton Depot on the 13th June 1993. Next to it is an unidentified class 20.
56034 at Westbury on the 8th April 1992.	56050 stands next to 47004 and 47049 at Swindon Stabling Point on the 12th December 1992.
56052 at the Eastleigh Depot open day on the 27th September 1992.	56103 stands next to 60012 at Old Oak Common on the 4th April 1993. The new building behind the locos is North Pole Eurostar Depot.
56105 at Leicester on the 6th September 1992.	56110 at Leicester Depot on the 6th September 1992. This locomotive had just been named "Croft".
56110 and 58016 at Leicester Depot on the 6th September 1992. Peak 45149 is behind the 58's tanks.

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