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The Great Western Railway ordered 2 gas turbine locomotives from Brown-Boveri {in Switzerland} in 1946. The Locomotives did not enter service until 1950 so were strictly British Railway locomotives. I think one ran on heavy fuel oil and the other on diesel oil to compair the two types of fuel. Also the prototype Advanced Passenger Train was a gas turbine as they give very good power to weight ratio's. <br /> There is a book called THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY GAS TURBINES by Kevin Robertson ISBN 0 86299549 3 <br /> <br /> Hope this is of some help.
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