Torndo at Woodthorpe

[TheOrigiona]

Tornado was built so that it could use all the modern rolling stock the second loco was a condition for running on the rail system until Tornado had been certified.

[peacemtn]

Neato

[shadynebey]

The diesel may also be there to supply head end power for the coaches.

[megatwingo]

5***** from Germany!

[sootyxfd]

Hi

The locomotive is at the end of the train as dead weight, as the train is too long to run round at Leicester North, the locomotive (a British Railways Class 45 Diesel Electric) weighes around 145 tons, and is worth aprox 4 coaches, making it around a 500 ton train

[megatwingo]

It maybe a stupid question, but....why making it a 500 ton train with a diesel loco?

What is the purpose of this?

[sootyxfd]

this is becuase if the train was made up of enough carrages to make that weight the locomotive would not be able to run round,

with 12 carrages the locomotive would not be able to run round at Leicester North anyway,

the diesel its self can provide NO heat what so ever, and is purly there to weigh the train down

[sootyxfd]

the purpose was to test Tornado with a big amount of weight on the drawbar

[megatwingo]

Ah, your last reply was what I wanted to know.

Thanks for the information.

I´m afraid, the last remains of my school-Enlish aren´t good enought to understand your first longer reply.

But I´ll give it a try:

Why wouldn´t the locomotive be able to run round at Leicester North?

Means the formulation "run round" something about the smooth running and working of the Tornado?

[sootyxfd]

the reason it cant run round is because the length of the train is too much for leicester north,

the station its self can accomidate 9 coaches, to achive the weight we wanted the only way was to use more than 9 coaches and a diesel, the end of the run round loop weas blocked by the train trailing the points

[megatwingo]

Thank you very much for your explainations. Now I´ve got it.

[mecrazy5]

No it isnt, the diesil is there beceuse the train itself is not made up of steam coaches, thses are modern repained intercity coaches that have not got the capabilities to generate electricety for lights and heating from a steam locomotive, the diesil is there because it has the modern capabilities to provide the train with power.

[sootyxfd]

sorry, i beg your pardon, i work at the railway that was taken at

all coaches apart from a few not in traffic can not provide Electric train heat,

they are standard vac braked coaches which are only able to be steam heated, all electric train heat has been chopped out from this stock,

they are very much steam era coaches, the coaches draw power from the batteries below which are charged from a dynamo, the heat is steam heat, the diesel was pure dead weight

[protikmaitra]

Quick Question:

Why is there a locomotive at the end of the train? Is the train pulled by steam and pushed by diesel simultaneously?

[sootyxfd]

the train was pulled in 1 direction by tornado, and dragged back to loughborough by the diesel due to the station at leicester being too short to run tornado round

[ADMIRALSCORNER]

Great video! May I ask what the trick is to get a full widescreen display on Youtube? My widescreen uploads are still being squeesed inwards from the sides.

[sootyxfd]

my camera takes vids in wide screen

[ADMIRALSCORNER]

I've discovered that Youtube needs a video of a particular dimension for a perfect display. One which is not always the natural size produced directly by camcorders.Video in that case needs to be reprocessed to fit.

[Driverman2008]

I hope this locomotive can come to the USA. Just like the Flying Scotsman.

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

excellent video m8

[NJPurling]

Just wait till that beauty has a go at The Long Drag or Shap with the same loading.

[crazyh0rse]

wow! 550 tons and cruising.

wait for main-line performances

[M3UEX]

verry nice video A++++++++ verry good like see this steam train

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Awesome video 5 stars!!!!!!!