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Locomotive books and magazines
Locomotive books and magazines are the publishing side of railway enthusiasm, spanning consumer magazines, society journals, and reference books, a tradition dating to The Locomotive Magazine of 1896.
Locomotive classification and numbering systems
Railways identify locomotives through classification schemes, which group vehicles into classes readable from the designation, and numbering systems that give each vehicle a unique registered identifier.
Locomotive dumps of New Zealand
Locomotive dumps of New Zealand are sites where New Zealand Railways discarded obsolete steam locomotives by rolling them into rivers for flood and erosion protection, mostly in the 1920s.
Locomotive Publishing Company
The Locomotive Publishing Company was a London publisher specializing in railways, home of the Locomotive Magazine and one of the first commercial railway photo libraries.
Locomotive Services Limited
Locomotive Services Limited, also known as Locomotive Services, is a Crewe-based rail company certified in 2017 to run mainline passenger charter trains hauled by steam, diesel, and electric locomotives.
Locomotives of India
Locomotives of India are the steam, diesel, and electric traction of Indian Railways, classified by letter codes encoding gauge, power type, and duty such as passenger or goods.
Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway
The locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway were the steam, electric, and railcar motive power run by the LNER from the 1923 Grouping until nationalisation in 1948.
London and Birmingham Railway
The London and Birmingham Railway was a 112-mile main-line railway company engineered by Robert Stephenson, opening in 1838 before merging into the London and North Western Railway.
London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway, formed in 1846, was Britain's largest railway until 1923, running the London Euston main line that became the West Coast Main Line.
London Bridge station
London Bridge station is a mainline railway station in Southwark, central London, opened in 1836, making it the capital's oldest railway station and London's first major passenger terminus.
London Charing Cross station
London Charing Cross station is a central London railway terminus on the Strand, opened in 1864 as the terminus of the South Eastern Railway's routes from Kent.
London fare zones
London fare zones, also known as TfL zones, are the numbered zones, 1 through 9, into which London is divided for setting Tube, rail, and bus fares.
London King's Cross railway station
London King's Cross railway station is a London terminus opened in 1852, now the southern end of the East Coast Main Line, serving Yorkshire and Scotland.
London North Eastern Railway
London North Eastern Railway is a publicly owned British train operator running intercity services from London King's Cross to Yorkshire, North East England, and Scotland since 2018.
London Overground
London Overground is a suburban passenger rail network in Greater London that carries more than 3 million passengers a week over 113 stations, operated by Transport for London since 2007.
London Paddington station
London Paddington station is a mainline railway terminus in Westminster, London, opened in 1854 and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the Great Western Railway terminus.
London Post Office Railway
The London Post Office Railway, known as Mail Rail, was a 6.5-mile driverless underground railway that carried mail between London stations and sorting offices from 1927 to 2003.
London Underground
The London Underground, known as the Tube, is the rapid transit system serving Greater London and the world's oldest underground railway, opened in 1863 and operated by Transport for London.
London Underground 1959 Stock
The London Underground 1959 Stock was a class of deep-level tube train built by Metro-Cammell in the late 1950s, serving the Piccadilly, Central, Northern, and Bakerloo lines until 2000.
London Underground 1972 Stock
The London Underground 1972 Stock, also called 1972 Tube Stock or 72TS, is a fleet of tube trains built by Metro-Cammell 1972–1974, now operating the Bakerloo line.
London Underground 1973 Stock
The London Underground 1973 Stock is a deep-level tube train built by Metro-Cammell for the Piccadilly line, serving since 1975, including Heathrow Airport extension services.
London Underground 2024 Stock
The London 2024 Stock, developed as the New Tube for London, is a fleet of 94 Siemens-built trains replacing the Piccadilly line's 1973 Stock, with walk-through carriages and air conditioning.
London Underground rolling stock
London Underground rolling stock, or London Tube rolling stock, is the fleet of 620 passenger trains on 11 lines, in two sizes for deep-tube and sub-surface routes.
London Underground S7 and S8 Stock
The London Underground S7 and S8 Stock, known as S Stock, is a class of Bombardier electric multiple-unit trains on the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines since 2010.
London Victoria station
London Victoria station is a central London railway terminus in the City of Westminster, serving southern England, Gatwick Airport, and the south coast, near Buckingham Palace.
London Waterloo station
London Waterloo station, opened in 1848, is a major central London terminus for South Western Railway services to the south and south west of England.
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was the largest of the Big Four British railway companies, formed in 1923 and nationalised into British Railways in 1948.
London, Tilbury and Southend line
The London, Tilbury and Southend line, or LTS line, is an electrified commuter railway from London Fenchurch Street through south Essex to Shoeburyness, operated by c2c.
Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), or MTA LIRR, is a commuter railroad owned by the MTA connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn with Long Island, New York.
Longest trains
The longest trains are freight trains, the record being a 7.353 km, 682-wagon iron ore train run by BHP 275 km to Port Hedland, Western Australia, in 2001.