Whistler40145
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Are the 73s and 92s a long term or stop gap solution until more advanced locomotives become available?
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Caledonian Sleeper: Are the 73s and 92s a long term or stop gap solution until more advanced locomotives become available?
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They were certainly intended as a long term solution: significant sums of money was spent converting/refurbishing (respectively) them specifically for the Caledonian Sleeper work.
Obviously plans can change with time, and whilst the 73/9s have been somewhat underwhelming on the sleeper, I don't see a viable replacement in the pipeline.
As far as I know, the 92s are meeting expectations - or am I missing something?
Ultimately GBRf are contracted to supply traction for the sleeper so it really is down to them what they supply. From a traction management perspective I suspect the only significant drawback of the current arrangement is the number of 66s it ties up.
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Why were the 73s picked to replace the 67s? They are very old locomotives and other than being a bit heavy I don't know any other problems with the 67s on the Caledonian Sleeper.
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Because GBRf did not have access to the 67s as they were/are DB Cargo locos.
GBRf owned the 73s and didn't own 67s?
GBRf couldn't get 67023 and 67027 into a suitable state for the Sleeper when the opportunity arose to take them on.
They have been fully rebuilt.
They had some issues from time to time.
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