GBRf 's 'Type 3' Class 73 hauls its first passenger services

摘要

The first of GB Railf reight's 're-power' conversions, No. 73961, has hauled its first passenger trains. The run, on the Great Central Railway with a Class 45 on October 18, followed several weeks of solo testing and running with a Class 31. The railway announced two workings of the loco via its web page, GB doing the same through its Facebook page. The electro-diesel - which has been fitted with a 1,600hp MTU power plant in place of its former English Electric 600hp engine, putting it into theType 3 diesel power category - worked the 11.00 and 13.00 departures from Loughborough to Leicester North, double heading with 'Peak' No. 45041 Royal Tank Regiment, before spending the afternoon shuttling between Quorn and Rothley.