Class 57 horns?

[Cowley]

Bit of a strange question I know but when the 57s were converted did they retain the original class 47 slightly mournful sounding horn?

 

[43096]

Bit of a strange question I know but when the 57s were converted did they retain the original class 47 slightly mournful sounding horn?

The one that goes "spooooooooooon"!

 

[leomartin125]

The one that goes "spooooooooooon"!

Haha, the original Class 57/0 retained the old 47 horn by the sounds of things in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EN9cRs5lg

But after those were upgraded to 57/3's and 57/6's the horn tone changed, with the high tone remaining similar but the low tone being adapted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDndkT67lbM

 

[Ash Bridge]

Haha, the original Class 57/0 retained the old 47 horn by the sounds of things in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EN9cRs5lg

But after those were upgraded to 57/3's and 57/6's the horn tone changed, with the high tone remaining similar but the low tone being adapted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDndkT67lbM

I'm not convinced, to me that sounds just like a 47 horn would have sounded also just sampled another YouTube video of a 57/6 departing Plymouth and both low and high tones sounded exactly like a 47.

 

[Cowley]

I was writing out a report from the 90s on Monday night which was full of 47s, it was about 1:30ish am and I heard a ghostly 47 horn in the night!
The next morning I woke up and realised it was probably just a 57 on the Sleepers


I was tired...

 

[Ash Bridge]

I was writing out a report from the 90s on Monday night which was full of 47s, it was about 1:30ish am and I heard a ghostly 47 horn in the night!
The next morning I woke up and realised it was probably just a 57 on the Sleepers


I was tired...

Unless it was 47828 or (D1966) trying to escape from the Dartmoor Railway in the dead of the night

 

[Cowley]

Unless it was 47828 or (D1966) trying to escape from the Dartmoor Railway in the dead of the night

Like Oliver did?

 

[Ash Bridge]

Like Oliver did?

Ah yes! Had to google it first though

 

[ac6000cw]

Bit of a strange question I know but when the 57s were converted did they retain the original class 47 slightly mournful sounding horn?

Provided the horns were still serviceable, I doubt they would have been changed - apart from anything else, presumably the class 47 horns would have had 'grandfather' rights for vehicle approval purposes.

It's a pity we've never really had good multi-tone horns in the UK (although BR InterCity did try hard with those on the 91s). Those who've heard the sound of a Nathan 5-chime K5LA echoing around the mountains (or burning your ears off close up ) will know what I mean...

 

[Cowley]

Provided the horns were still serviceable, I doubt they would have been changed - apart from anything else, presumably the class 47 horns would have had 'grandfather' rights for vehicle approval purposes.

It's a pity we've never really had good multi-tone horns in the UK (although BR InterCity did try hard with those on the 91s). Those who've heard the sound of a Nathan 5-chime K5LA echoing around the mountains (or burning your ears off close up ) will know what I mean...

Now that is an impressive horn.


Thanks for the replies folks, I'm off to bed, hopefully I won't be woken up at half one by a ghostly 47 horn that's been imprisoned by a body snatcher...