Drumtochty
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Getting a bit confuesd here, not a railway geek at all, more of an engineer with a common intrest in mechanical things.
There were around 2,500 steam trains built from 1948 to 1960 or so in the UK. Now Germany other European railways were using Diesel trains from the late forties or so.
Some TV programmes say that BR etc should have started using diesels on mass from say 1948. The little I know from the fifties and sixties of the reliability of UK sourced diesel units was very poor but DMU's like the type 101 and 102 seem to have been exceptions to that rules. Also, the 37's and 47's are still running.
Main line locos of all sorts in the UK from the late fifties and sixties had at best 10 or so years life even after major refits.
Therefore, my question is how did say the German and the French Railways manage to run reliable Diesels during 1948 to say 1970 or did they have the same problems with their locos and did they change designs every 10 years and do many change outs in the fifties and sixties.
There were around 2,500 steam trains built from 1948 to 1960 or so in the UK. Now Germany other European railways were using Diesel trains from the late forties or so.
Some TV programmes say that BR etc should have started using diesels on mass from say 1948. The little I know from the fifties and sixties of the reliability of UK sourced diesel units was very poor but DMU's like the type 101 and 102 seem to have been exceptions to that rules. Also, the 37's and 47's are still running.
Main line locos of all sorts in the UK from the late fifties and sixties had at best 10 or so years life even after major refits.
Therefore, my question is how did say the German and the French Railways manage to run reliable Diesels during 1948 to say 1970 or did they have the same problems with their locos and did they change designs every 10 years and do many change outs in the fifties and sixties.