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  • Title
    South & Central America photographs
  • Reference
    GEC/4/2/14
  • Production date
    1926 - 1963
  • Creator
    • GEC Traction LimitedBiography
  • Scope and Content
    The box contains photographs of English Electric Company Limited and AEI Traction locomotives for South & Central America: Brazil Railways: AEI-supplied Rio de Janiero emus in service Central Railway of Brazil, 1936, units built by MetCamm C&W Co A derailment on the railway “Overcrowding” on the suburban steam-hauled trains before AEI electrification, 1933 600hp 1500V dc metre-gauge Bo-Bo loco no 400 on Oeste de Minas Railway in 1926 Old 2340hp 3000V dc 1-C-C-1 loco 5’3” gauge for Paulista Railway Officials in 1950. The EFSJ (Estrada de Ferro Santos a Jundiai) Electrification project. EE Co A General Electric (USA) diesel loco 1945, for Sococabana Electrification of the EFSJ. EE Co with BICC (British Insulated Callenders Cables), 1950 Rio de Janiero 3-car EMU (AEI) Campos de Jordao Railway, 1925, EE Co with Midland Railway Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd, Birmingham Trains in service with various vehicles – maintenance unit, baggage car and passenger car. Some photos are of vehicles in Birmingham EFSJ Electrification project, work in progress, substations including HT control gear and rectifiers EE locomotive pantographs type PNL-4A EE 3000V dc Co-Co electric locos. 1953. With BICC. EFSJ at Sao Paulo, Brazil EFSJ motor car underframe (at BRCW?), bogie with EE522 motors fitted Letter on Yellow paper. MV Publicity Dept. J Dummelow to E J Lambert 20 Sept 1954 Single-ended Co-Co diesel-electric metre-gauge loco No 702. Rede Ferroviaria do Norte Rio de Janiero EMUs in service EFSJ (Sao Paulo) 3000V, 800hp 3-car emu, EE Co contract 6T0568 Co-Co electric loco for EFSJ, EE contract 6T0555. Mechanical parts by Vulcan Foundry Bo-Bo electric loco Nos 2003 & 2009 on the Parana-Santa Catarania (Catarina?) line. (Southern Brazil?). RVPSC on loco side Argentina Railways: 4-4-0 steam loco No 9 “Tadea Torres” with BAP on the tender Push-pull unit Driving Trailer at a snow-covered works. EFSA on coach sides, Argentine State Railway Master controller for diesel-electric loco for the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway GEC (Witton) photos of a 3-car 3rd-rail emu and equipment for BACTR. Motor type EM34D [a preWW2 type designation]. Doorway treadplates say “Built by Metro-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Finance Co Nottingham.” Artist’s impression of a proposed 800hp diesel-electric loco for Argentine State Railway. EE Co. March 1947 BA Great Southern Railway. 5’6” gauge, 1-A2A-1 1200hp mobile power house for 8-car trains. EE C0. 1929 BAGSR 1700hp diesel-electric loco type CM210. Loco and diesel engine built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co BAGSR 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical shunting loco EFSA 1000hp diesel-electric Co-Co loco for General Belgrano Railway, Argentina. Aug 1959. EE Co contract CCH0924 EE Co 1938 contract no 6G0283 for Eastern Railway of Brazil. Diesel-electric 1-B-B-1 loco. Loco painted with lettering VFFLB
  • Extent
    1 box
  • Level of description
    FILE
  • Repository name
    National Railway Museum, York
  • Associated people and organisations
    • English Electric Company LimitedBiography
    • AEI Traction DivisionBiography
    • Buenos Aires Great Southern RailwayBiography
    • Central Railway of BrazilBiography
    • Central Argentine Railway Company Ltd.Biography
    • General Electric Company, USABiography
    • Vulcan Foundry LtdBiography
    • Jamaican Government RailwayBiography
  • Subject
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