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Hi, A bit of a long shot but during the Penmansheil tunnel collapse I travelled from Carlisle to Edinburgh leaving Carlisle at 10h45 (sch 10h26, 09h12 from Newcastle) behind 46029. It was right at the end of the diversion (Friday 27th of July 1978?) If anyone could confirm the date I would...

Most of the 1st generation ac units required the controller to return to off before using a lower setting. It was a function of the tap changer

I’m travelling at present but I recall the GEC WT401motors had a peak to continuous rating factor of around 1.8 so an 8 car unit would be about 1128 *2 * 1.8 = 4061hp in the range 20-35 mph or close to double the rail hp of a class 47

I have access to a simulation program that allows me to simulate acceleration for most types of historical traction

Hi, The tractive effort for a Class 66/6 limited to 65mph is as follows:

That is great. It’s really appreciated

Thank you for the feedback, its really appreciated. I thought the globes were around 20W but not sure

I'm looking for the British Railways stock in say the 1970's excluding those with fluorescent lighting.

I'm looking for details of the lighting in the Mark 1 coaches. I'm looking for the number of globes and rating of the globes.