Questions about the fuel for DMUs

[alexl92]

More than occasionally.

The trials of wood pulp from docks in the south east to Barrow-in-Furness ran out of fuel so often that the traffic now moves by coastal ship.

Assuming you’re not being tongue-in-cheek, why was that allowed to happen so much? Was the run longer that the range often allocated loco or were they putting on locos with less fuel than needed?

 

[furnessvale]

Assuming you’re not being tongue-in-cheek, why was that allowed to happen so much? Was the run longer that the range often allocated loco or were they putting on locos with less fuel than needed?

Certainly not tongue in cheek. It happened on several occasions and the customer, quite rightly, saw the railways as incapable of running the proverbial in a brewery.

Class 37 was the traction but it was not my department to know exactly why it happened.

 

[XDM]

Is kerosine as used by aircraft different from red diesel & is it lower priced?
Can diesel trains use it?
I occasionally smell paraffin when passing or passed by another car.
Is it paraffin?
Can paraffin still be bought & if, it is untaxed, can railway diesels use it?

 

[fireftrm]

Aircraft kerosene - Jet A1 - is a lighter and much more volatile fuel with a much lower flash point than diesel - 38'C compared to 56-96' C. Paraffin can be mixed with diesel to prevent waxing in very cold conditions, but most modern diesel cars will suffer damage to their fuel systems. Railway diesels are diesels so like any diesel can use paraffin, but why would they?