Tom B
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I'm fairly sure I've heard of a HST power car substituting for a failed 91 on the east coast in Intercity days. Is thst true or am I mistaken?
I'm fairly sure I've heard of a HST power car substituting for a failed 91 on the east coast in Intercity days. Is thst true or am I mistaken?
I don't recall that, but right at the begining some HST power cars were modified to replace the undelivered DVTs but not (normally) to provide motive power.
I'm fairly sure I've heard of a HST power car substituting for a failed 91 on the east coast in Intercity days. Is thst true or am I mistaken?
HSTs do not have Tightlocks. Production power cars have Alliance couplers - these are basically fixed buckeyes. 41001 has a standard drop-head buckeye. An Alliance coupler can (and has) coupled to a buckeye.
The adapter to fit the swing coupler on a 67 is not a VTEC innovation, either - it was developed back in GNER days when the 67s replaced the 47s as Thunderbirds.
This document uses the term Alliance couplers to refer to solid shank buckeye couplers (it is known that some have been also produced by Blair).
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The system allows automatic connection of vehicles and in principle is similar to the drophead buckeye automatic coupler system without the facility for conversion to allow connection to locomotives fitted with a Screw
coupler
I'm fairly sure I've heard of a HST power car substituting for a failed 91 on the east coast in Intercity days. Is thst true or am I mistaken?
HST Mark 3s have Alliance couplers. LHCS Mark 3s have drop-head buckeyes with retractable buffers.So what do Mk3 sets have? How can you to put 41001 at one end of a Mk3 set and a production car at the other if they have different couplers?
That is clearly not May 2013. Without checking I would say it was 2007.Was going through some old photos and found these that I took at Bristol Temple Meads in May 2013.
47810 is taking 43079, 43042, 43138 and 43122 to an unknown location.
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That is clearly not May 2013. Without checking I would say it was 2007.