Foreign Locomotives In Britain

[341o2]

Leighton Buzzard has several Orenstein & Koppel locos, PC Allen, Elf, Falcon and Madge, for example, although it was never the intention of Koppel to build his own locomotives

 

[Taunton]

When I last went to New Zealand, I wrote "UK" as my citizenship on the arrival form and the NZ immigration officer crossed it out and wrote "British".

Presumably Australia would put it under P for Pom.

 

[Halish Railway]

Do the rare examples of trains being built for the European market count e.g. the Arlanda Express trains that were made at Washwood Heath?

 

[pdeaves]

Do the rare examples of trains being built for the European market count e.g. the Arlanda Express trains that were made at Washwood Heath?

Great Britain was once train builder for the world. Glasgow and Manchester in particular built loads of 'foreign' locos which, of course, were seen in Britain before being exported.