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The Metropolitain Vickers locomotive, 18100 was withdrawn from service on 1/2/58 . It was then converted to an electric locomotive and given the number E2001. It was used for driver training on the new 25kV electrifiation scheme then underway. It was officially classed as a A1A A1A configuration because the motors on the centre axle of each bogie were removed. This locomotive was withdrawn from service once the main production of new electric locomotives was underway. It was withdrawn in 1968 and sold for scrap iron 15/9/1971 and finally broken up in January 1973.
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Brown Boveri Gas Turbine Locomotive. Preserved 18000 seen at the Railway Age, Crewe on Sun 19-Oct-97 at 10:30.
Photo: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk). |
Brown Boveri Gas Turbine Locomotive. Preserved 18000 seen at the Railway Age, Crewe on Sun 19-Oct-97 at 10:30.
Photo: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk). |
British Rail Experimental Gas Turbine Unit seen at Railway World, Crewe 20 May 2000. This locomotive is now a shell of the train, after it was abandoned by British Rail in the fifties as a Gas Trubine prototype it was modifed for as a prototype ofr the new Electric Locomotives that were being built in the UK - later it was exported to Germany where it was modified for work on the electrified net of DB.
Copyright belongs A P Ducker, email address ecml@yahoo.co.uk. Photograph taken Kodak DC260 |
Great Western gas turbine 18 000 at Didcot Railway Center. 24.03.12 D H Thomas thomdh@hotmail.com |
Great Western gas turbine 18 000 at Didcot Railway Center and DB Class 66. 24.03.12 D H Thomas thomdh@hotmail.com |
Great Western gas turbine 18 000 Didcot Railway Center. 24.03.12 D H Thomas thomdh@hotmail.com |
Great Western gas turbine 18 000 Didcot Railway Center. 24.03.12 D H Thomas thomdh@hotmail.com |