Sentence examples for using locomotives from inspiring English sources

Starting today July 222) was the first of what will be a series of journeys on the Dorset Coast Express, involving trips using locomotives dating back to the 1940s on the route between London Victoria and Bournemouth and Weymouth.

For a long freight train to save fuel in this way, software is needed.Norfolk Southern, an American rail operator, now pulls roughly one-sixth of its freight using locomotives equipped with "route optimisation" software.

Attention now could focus on at-grade road crossings and the practice of using locomotives to push, rather than pull, passenger cars.

Both Tomlinson and Rolt state this claim was unfounded and the company had shown earlier that locomotives were superior to horses, Tomlinson showing that coal was being moved using locomotives at half the cost of horses.

Robert Young states that the company was unsure as to the real costs as they reported to shareholders in 1828 that the saving using locomotives was 30 per cent.

While its competitors were spending lavishly on new equipment, ALL repaired decommissioned engines from its "dead fleet," bought used locomotives from African carriers, and replaced damaged sections of the main line with dismantled tracks from abandoned parking stations.

NSB had originally planned to use electric multiple units, but changed the plans during the war and instead decided to use locomotives and cars.

These relate, inter alia, to access to routes and route pricing, the purchase of used locomotives and trucks, cross-subsidising within dominant rail groups and the licensing of rolling stock.

While construction was under way on the 40-km (25-mile) single-track line, it was decided to use locomotive engines as well as horse traction.

On Jan . 10 , 1863the line was opened, using steam locomotives that burned coke and, later, coal.

Towards the centre of the country, it is the only place in Europe that still operates a scheduled train service using steam locomotives.