they popped up in virgin XC rakes at various times and various places. I guess the rakes were used during their normal work " down time" to enhance services elsewhere and it was easier to leave the DVT attached.
EDIT: Perhaps they were also left attached for operational ease if services ran off the wires to, say, Blackpool or Holyhead.
Hi. I'm pretty sure that they appeared in Exeter in the 90s on summer Saturday trains from up north behind 47s, obviously not in push pull mode, but behind the loco in one direction. Also Holyhead and maybe Blackpool too?
Life must have become a lot less interesting at Euston / Manchester Pic, Lime Street and Glasgow Central once they were introduced. I have fond memories of light engine movements and station pilots in the 1970's.
This post from a thread on this forum nearly five years ago provides some detail:What actually happened to 82119 for it to be scrapped in late 2005? This was the DVT which carried the ONE striped livery at the launch of the new East Anglia franchise in 2004.
they popped up in virgin XC rakes at various times and various places. I guess the rakes were used during their normal work " down time" to enhance services elsewhere and it was easier to leave the DVT attached.
EDIT: Perhaps they were also left attached for operational ease if services ran off the wires to, say, Blackpool or Holyhead.
The mark 3 DVTs were built for use with class 86, 87 and 90 locos on the West Coast main line, replacing mark 1 full brakes and being fitted with the Time Division Multiplex (TDM) multiple working system to allow push-pull operation.
The DVTs continue to be used with class 90s on Greater Anglia services between London Liverpool Street and Norwich, while elsewhere DVTs have been modified to use the AAR multiple working system, so that they are capable of controlling class 67 and 68 diesel locos. Conversions were initially undertaken for EWS' company train (82146) and Wrexham & Shropshire (82301 - 305 initially), and similarly converted DVTs are now in use with Chiltern Railways, Arriva Trains Wales, Network Rail and DB Cargo (who inherited the EWS company train). Chiltern utilise class 68s provided by DRS while the others use 67s.
they popped up in virgin XC rakes at various times and various places. I guess the rakes were used during their normal work " down time" to enhance services elsewhere and it was easier to leave the DVT attached.
EDIT: Perhaps they were also left attached for operational ease if services ran off the wires to, say, Blackpool or Holyhead.
DVT could also have been used as extra luggage capacity particular on those summer Sunday trains perhaps?
Pfffft..... Too much like common sense!
DVT could also have been used as extra luggage capacity particular on those summer Sunday trains perhaps?
Ah yes, sorry about that. I'll go sit down in a corner and give myself a stern telling off for such nonsense![]()