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The NR DVTs (there are four) have got 60kVA three-phase generators, the Chiltern DVT's have 250kW, 850V DC - very different and for completely different uses.

The Nightstar generator was considered in the very early days of the Chiltern DVT concept but was discarded as totally unsuitable. If I remember rightly, it's the wrong voltage, way over size and installation would have meant taking the roof off - something we went a long way round to avoid...

It hasn't - only no's 1 - 5 will have generators. Arriva did have an option on three vehicles that would have been WSMR but never picked it up.

Two things - 1: the Volvo motor moves in excess of 380 cubic metres/minute airflow. 2: more blades costs more money!!

For those who like this sort of thing: 6264 Gen Van 6263 Gen Van 6262 Gen Van 6261 Gen Van 977995 NMT BV 977984 NMT MC2 975984 NMT MC1 975081 SGT 975280 SGT 999600 TRU 999601 TRU 999605 UTU2 999602 UTU3 999606 UTU4 977869 RSC2 975091 Mentor 9701 DBSO 9708 DBSO 9714 DBSO...

Hmmm....I'd always though they were amongst the slower stuff. Duly educated!! NMT is at Heaton over the weekend if anyone is curious.

The NMT surveys the main line network over a two-week pattern. It's regular presumably because being hauled by an HST, it can run with main traffic and doesn't interfere. The slower stuff (UTUs, RSCs, TIC, MENTOR etc) get in the way of "normal" traffic so have to be specifically arranged to...

The Network Rail vehicles will have 60kVA, 400V, three-phase machines fitted. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- It could. I started talking about this in 2002 and it's come back three or four times since then. We also got into discussions over a similar idea in Ireland on the...