The problem is that British Rail, and in turn Network Rail, are such tightwads that they won't 'waste' a penny of their money to get maintenance on these old engines.
To be honest it depends on the individual loco. The two in the video, despite being the most recent to receive heavy attention in the works, aren't the best locos in terms of power or response to the controls. If you can find the videos I have on here of 37401, that one is quite good as it was fitted with reconditioned traction motors within the last few years...
So they just had a prime mover overhaul only with out getting a full rewire. As to your first point a lot depends on your exciter/gov arrangement/design. What stoped EE geting a lot of orders in AU was incompatibility with US equipment which used 85v 8 notch control V's the 110v ep system used in British
They're owned by EWS, not Network Rail. Network Rail does the Railway Infrastructure such as points and signals.
kevatcrewe 5 years ago
they obviously don't do them very well (with regards to the pendolino crash)
Yownanymous 4 years ago
Or the Ufton incident.
Shit level crossing.
PBR14akaAdam 4 years ago
The problem is that British Rail, and in turn Network Rail, are such tightwads that they won't 'waste' a penny of their money to get maintenance on these old engines.
Yownanymous 5 years ago
Fantastic noise those V12's make :)
kevatcrewe 5 years ago
One thing I have noticed is that the EE doesn't load up nowhere near as fast as an alco
gregrudd 5 years ago
To be honest it depends on the individual loco. The two in the video, despite being the most recent to receive heavy attention in the works, aren't the best locos in terms of power or response to the controls. If you can find the videos I have on here of 37401, that one is quite good as it was fitted with reconditioned traction motors within the last few years...
tutankahmun 5 years ago
So they just had a prime mover overhaul only with out getting a full rewire. As to your first point a lot depends on your exciter/gov arrangement/design. What stoped EE geting a lot of orders in AU was incompatibility with US equipment which used 85v 8 notch control V's the 110v ep system used in British
gregrudd 5 years ago
ok cheers
broomboi 5 years ago
why is this going so slow
broomboi 5 years ago
It's quite a steep climb away from there. The fact that it had to stop half way up didn't help it either.
tutankahmun 5 years ago