Recent content by IamSparticus

Thankyou all for you help and especially the Perkins 158 data as that's a good starting point for me. I was hoping the relationship between notches would not be linear. I'm building up a dynamic model to run in Train Sim of the Class 165s taking into account train mass, rolling resistance...

Apologies for the poor posting earlier - 75 mph - yes holding speed. Although the class can be configured with up to 12 carriages, My need is just for the smaller 2- and 3- carriage trains.

Hello all ... my first posting and I searched about but couldn't see any similar posts. Class 165 DMUs have 7 traction lever notch positions. Is there any rule of thumb as to the balancing speed for each notch ?. I appreciate gradient, wind speed, and many other factors affect achieved speed...