Prima Ⅱ tested

摘要

An Alstom Prima Ⅱ locomotive 'in standard configuration and hauling wagons with a total weight of 950 tonnes' made a test run through the Channel Tunnel on the night of September 29 to 30. Entering the French portal at 22.20, the train arrived in Cheriton at 03.00 after a series of traction, braking and pantograph trials, returning to France where it arrived around 06.00.Eurotunnel said that the tests were in line with its ambition 'to enable the development of standard rail freight services' between the UK and continental Europe, 'without the obligation to use the specialised Class 92 locomotives'.