Britain's Most Powerful Diesel - HS4000 Kestrel

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In a bid to develop a 125mph diesel locomotive for the British railway network, Hawker Siddeley, in collaboration with Brush Traction, created the 4,000hp HS4000 Kestrel, a unique prototype that became Britain's most powerful single-engined diesel upon its launch in 1967, but would sadly never see a subsequent production fleet released in its wake due to the changing policies of the BR management towards the APT and the HST of the 1970s.

Instead, the HS4000, despite its incredible technology that was leaps and bounds beyond BR's contemporary locomotive roster, as well as its sheer power, would lead a short and inauspicious life in the UK before being shipped to the Soviet Union, where its power unit was found to be more useful than the locomotive itself, thus resulting in this formidable machine being reduced to an engineless shell rotting in a yard outside Moscow.

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References:
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