Rolls-Royce Shunter Engine Start

Hydra is a Thomas Hill Vanguard shunting locomotive with a Rolls-Royce straight-eight uprated engine. This locomotive has stood out of use on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway pending repairs to the transmission. The decision was taken to start it on a very cold day in February 2010 just to get the engine warm. It is normal with this shunting locomotive to have to give the engine a higher speed after first ignition.

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• ecclesbourne
• valley
• railway
• wyvernrail
• train
• shunter
• locomotive
• rolls
• royce
• engine
• diesel
• start
• cold

[Mitsugejl]

@Squarerig It is normal on a engine without glowplugs. It will stall if you let it fall back to idle on the regulator while the engine/combustionchambers is cold. On the other hand, no need for overkill either :D

[Mitsugejl]

@peter280319 Yes you can see the injectorlines beneath the exhaustheader :)

[gonetoworkbbackin5mi]

I luv big engines.

[ellieysama]

Step on the GAS <3

[1800isbest]

@fgh456pc doubt it naturally aspirated

[peter280319]

Diesel?



[mihaitudosa]

Oh, good boy! Nice start!

[fgh456pc]

Get a load of that supercharger whine at the end.