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xotGD
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Peterthegreat
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I'm struggling a bit for a question so an easy one!
How many wheels did tje BR class 28 have?
How many wheels did tje BR class 28 have?
D6130
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Ten?
Peterthegreat
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Ten is correct
The class 28 was the unsuccessful Co-Bo.
5 axles therefore 10 wheels.
Please be more successful than the class with your question!
D6130
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Thanks. Continuing on the theme of unsuccessful BR diesel locomotive classes:
How many North British Type 2 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives (class 21) were built....and how many were rebuilt with Paxman Ventura 1,350 bhp engines (class 29) replacing their original NBL/MAN 1,000 or 1,100 bhp units?
Gloster
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My answer in #16,648 stands.
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35 and 20
D6130
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Agreed in principle....but not the answer I was looking for, I'm afraid!
D6130
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Wrong in the first instance, but right in the second.
D6130
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Very close....but not quite close enough!
D6130
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That's it! Your turn to slip the cable on the Cowlairs banking turn.
Sticking with the class 21/29s.
Which of these travelled to South Wales?
Gloster
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I think it was D6121 or 6122. There seems to be some doubt as the paint has worn off the cab and a number one different has been revealed: it could be just a cab swap, or an identity swap or just a muck up. I think it went via Hither Green.
As Gloster states there is some doubt about which locomotive this actually was. Officially it was D6122 which after withdrawal was sent to Hither Green for rerailing exercises and afterwards sent to Woodhams, Barry for scrap but the works plates suggested that it could have been D6121. See attached article from the RCTS website.
So are you going to choose one of these-if so which?
Gloster
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I’ll go for the one that started as D6121 and ended as D6122. But it is doubtful if anyone really knows and can prove it.
D6122 was the answer I was looking for and seems to be the “official” position.
So your turn to set the next question
Gloster
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Who built the early 25 kV AC electric loco E2001?
Absolute stab in the dark and I’m not sure I’m even spelling this correctly, but Brown Boverie?
Gloster
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No, not Brown-Boveri.
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Metro-Vic originally gas turbine 18100
Gloster
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No, sorry as …
…this is correct. Met-Vic also did the conversion from gas-turbine to AC, but at their Bowesfield Works, rather than Trafford Park, where it had been built.
To you to electrify us with a new question.
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In 1946 the LMS ordered a diesel electric locomotive, which was delivered in 1950, becoming BR 10800.
Which two classes was it a prototype for, and who purchased 10800?
Which two classes was it a prototype for, and who purchased 10800?