Sentence examples for locomotives to replace from inspiring English sources

The agency's board also voted to buy 1,244 buses and 24 electric locomotives to replace aging equipment.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority completed a contract this month to buy 20 diesel locomotives to replace equipment that had been scheduled to be retired in 2005.

The MR had bought a number of Metropolitan Railway C Class locomotives to replace the ageing A and B class engines, but these performed poorly on the London-Aylesbury line and were soon replaced by the Metropolitan Railway D Class.

Adding to the delays, officials said, were unwarranted activations of positive train control, mechanical problems, operational issues and the use of slow freight locomotives to replace all 57 of Metrolink's cab cars at the front of trains.

During the late 1980s, the Norwegian State Railways sought a new locomotive type to replace its aging fleet of Di 3 diesel-electric locomotives, which made up the back-bone of the dieselized operations.

The S&DR opened a carriage works south of Darlington North Road station in 1853 and later it built a locomotive works nearby to replace its works at Shildon.

The basis of the Leader originated from a 1944 review of the Southern Railway's steam locomotive fleet, resulting in a Southern Railway design brief which called for a high-powered locomotive requiring little maintenance to replace the ageing fleet of M7 class tank engines.

The company's financial difficulties after 1866 had precluded the purchasing of any more locomotives until six 4-4-0 locomotives were built in 1876 by Neilson's, partly to replace the Deeside locomotives.

These new locomotive designs were intended to replace some of the ageing designs inherited by British Railways.

A coalition of Queens civic associations has pushed to replace old locomotives with quieter, less polluting ones.

Large numbers went to replace steam locomotives, especially on express passenger duties.