RCTS
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The RCTS: then and now
AFTER the initial classes of diesel locomotives in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when diesel-electric had been established as the preferred type of power, there was a need for more powerful class of engines suitable for use throughout the network on all classes of train. Several manufacturers supplied prototype locos, with varying degrees of success. Brush Traction of Loughborough had supplied a 2,750hp example with a Sulzer engine (Class 53), given the number No. D0280 and the name Falcon, and this led on to an initial order of 20 Class 47 locos in 1961 numbered Nos. D1500-D1519.